What The World Needs More Of... Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jairek Robbins
Focused on inspiring stories that bring to life the little (& big) ways people bring more love, joy, laughter & humanness to every day life... Our focus is to hunt for those little reminders that refuel the human soul & reminds us what life is really all about
Born and raised in Missouri City, Texas, Garrain had a challenging childhood. However, he was blessed with a natural talent for music and sports, which he utilized to earn a college scholarship.
After college, Garrain pursued a career in the music industry and modeled for some top brands, experiencing a taste of success. But life took a sudden turn when he found himself embroiled in legal troubles, leading to a two-year imprisonment in France.
Following his release, Garrain experienced a period of homelessness and severe financial hardship. During this challenging phase, he had a life-changing realization which led him to commit to personal transformation.
He began a journey of personal development, adopting a healthier lifestyle and a positive mindset. This transformative journey fueled his rise from hardship to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Garrain established himself in the network marketing business, turning his fortunes around to become a millionaire.
As a motivational speaker and author, Garrain shares his transformative philosophy with people around the world. His book, "Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life," offers insights into his transformation process, providing practical steps for individuals to overcome their adversities and achieve success.
Garrain is also known for his dedication to philanthropy. He believes in giving back to society and helping those less fortunate, mirroring his belief that everyone, regardless of their past or present circumstances, can create a successful future.
What The World Needs More Of Love, Peace & Unity with Freddy Welcome back to another thought-provoking episode of "What The World Needs More Of" hosted by the charismatic Jairek Robbins.
In today's episode, we have the honor of welcoming a remarkable guest all the way from the heart of Africa - Freddy from Congo. Freddy, a firm believer and advocate for love, peace, and unity, takes us on a fascinating journey through his lens, sharing candid tales of resilience and transformation.
Dive into this captivating conversation as we delve into Freddy's life and wisdom. We'll traverse the rich tapestry of Congolese and South African culture, discuss his first-hand experiences in navigating a landscape of challenges, and unpack his steadfast belief in the power of love, peace, and unity to reshape the world.
Freddy's narratives remind us of the universal ties that bind us all, regardless of our geographical location or cultural backdrop. This episode will inspire you, provoke deep introspection, and might even change the way you see the world.
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Immerse yourself in the profoundness of Freddy's wisdom and let's explore together - What the World truly needs more of...
"Because what the world needs more of is people who have come alive!" - Your host, Jairek Robbins.
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In this episode, we have the honor of speaking with the incredible Barbara Blank, a dedicated health and wellness advocate who has spent over 17 years transforming lives through clean eating and holistic approaches.
Barbara's journey began in the fitness industry, where she discovered her passion for guiding others toward optimal health. As a former IFBB Pro Bikini competitor, Barbara's dedication to her craft was evident as she graced the Olympia Stage and was featured on the covers of prestigious fitness magazines. However, it was her desire to help people on a deeper level that led her to embark on a remarkable entrepreneurial path.
In 2011, Barbara founded Clean Creations, a revolutionary healthy meal delivery service, and grab-and-go concept. With a keen focus on nutrition and clean eating, she has successfully empowered countless individuals to take charge of their well-being. Through her expertise and unwavering commitment, Barbara's mission is to guide others on their journey to becoming their healthiest, best, and most authentic selves.
Join us as we explore Barbara's wealth of knowledge and delve into the secrets of clean eating and the incredible impact it can have on our lives. Discover how small, sustainable changes in our dietary habits can lead to remarkable transformations in our physical and mental well-being.
As a wife and mother of two young girls, Barbara understands the challenges of balancing a busy lifestyle while prioritizing health. Through her own experiences, she offers practical advice and valuable insights on how to incorporate clean eating into even the most hectic routines. Her relatable and down-to-earth approach will inspire you to take action and make positive changes for yourself and your loved ones.
One of Barbara's unique attributes is her ability to captivate audiences through her camera presence. Having honed her skills on stage and in front of the camera, she understands the power of visual storytelling. In this episode, she shares the invaluable lessons she has learned from her theatrical background and how it has shaped her ability to connect with people and inspire them to embrace their own journeys.
Beyond her expertise in health and wellness, Barbara's multifaceted nature shines through her diverse interests. Did you know that she was an art major in college and still finds solace in painting and drawing? This intriguing fact adds another layer to her vibrant personality and reminds us of the importance of nurturing our creative passions alongside our pursuit of health.
Barbara's favorite color, any shade of white, reflects her unwavering dedication to purity, authenticity, and simplicity. Her unwavering commitment to guiding others toward their healthiest, best lives is evident in every aspect of her work. Through her infectious energy and genuine desire to make a difference, she ignites a spark within each of us to embrace our own authentic health journeys.
Tune in to this empowering episode of the What the World Needs More Of podcast and unlock the secrets to transforming your life through clean eating and holistic wellness practices. Barbara Blank's wisdom, passion, and dedication will leave you feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to embark on your own transformative journey toward optimal health and authentic living.
Remember, the world needs more individuals like Barbara Blank, who strive to make a positive impact by empowering others to prioritize their well-being. Together, we can create a ripple effect
Guest Details:
Name: Barbara Blank
Age: 35
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Bio: Barbara has been involved in the health and wellness industry for over 17 years. She began her career in the fitness space as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer. She is a former IFBB Pro Bikini competitor and has competed on the Olympia Stage. She has been featured on the cover of Muscle Mag Magazine and also featured in Muscle and Fitness Hers and Women’s Health Magazine. Barbara is a former sponsored Bpi athlete and represented Bpi at both the Olympia and the Arnold Classic for 4 consecutive years. Her passion for nutrition led Barbara to begin Clean Creations in 2011, a healthy meal delivery service and grab-and-go. For the past 12 years, she has been focused on helping people become their healthiest best selves through clean eating. Barbara is a wife and mother to two young girls and her goal is to continue helping people on their journey to optimal health and wellness.
WOW factor: My WOW factor is my ability to be on camera. It has been a huge part of my business and I know it was shaped by doing theatre from a young age. I have always loved to be on stage and perform.
Interesting fact few people know: I was an art major in college and I still love to paint and draw!
Favorite Color: any shade of white
What you most want to share with our community: my passion for helping others to live their healthiest, best most authentic lives.
In this powerful episode, we are honored to have Ken Rusk, a best-selling author, entrepreneur, and blue-collar advocate whose life exemplifies the richness and fulfillment of self-belief, determination, and hard work. Ken's journey began with humble beginnings, digging ditches and working in construction, but he never let his lack of a college education define his success. Through goal-setting, planning, and perseverance, Ken has become an accomplished entrepreneur with multiple businesses and revenue streams.
Ken's passion for mentoring has led him to coach hundreds of young people, helping them to visualize their dreams, set goals, and develop sound financial plans.
In his best-selling book, Blue-Collar Cash, Ken shares the wisdom and insights he gained over 30 years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and life coach in the blue-collar trades. Join us as Ken delves into his awe-inspiring journey, sharing how he's created winning cultures within organizations, built a company from just six team players to 200, and the invaluable lessons he's learned along the way. Listen in as Ken reveals how you can foster amazing office cultures that allow others to flourish and why the world needs more self-belief, control of one's future, and self-reliance.
Don't miss this heartwarming conversation with Ken Rusk, a true testament to the power of the human spirit and an inspiration for all of us to embrace the richness of life. Tune in to this unforgettable episode and let your soul be refueled and inspired!
In this heartfelt episode of "What the World Needs More Of," we welcome the inspiring Kerrie Lee Brown. As an accomplished journalist, magazine editor, author, speaker, and women's health advocate, Kerrie has significantly impacted the realms of health, wellness, parenting, and luxury lifestyle.
Currently, Kerrie serves as the editor-in-chief at SUCCESS magazine, and in 2021, she founded RedLily Media LLC, the parent company of RedLily® women's lifestyle and storytelling brand. Kerrie is on a mission to share her experiences and empower others to turn their "mess" into meaningful messages.
Join us as we dive deep into Kerrie's life story, from surviving a heart attack at age 39 to her ongoing journey as a proud Canadian living in the US and a devoted mother of two boys.
This thought-provoking conversation explores the importance of acceptance, resilience, and self-discovery. Kerrie reflects on the life-altering moments that have shaped her worldview, such as her mother's passing and moving her family across borders. She shares how these experiences have fostered a sense of humility and gratitude.
With her signature "wow factor" of open-mindedness, empathy, and genuine curiosity, Kerrie discusses her passion project, RedLily®, and how it serves as a platform for women to connect and share their success stories.
Don't miss this uplifting episode as we learn from Kerrie Lee Brown about the power of acceptance and the potential for growth and transformation within each of us.
Guest: Dave Elliott
Age: 53 years
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Bio: When it comes to relationship transformation, Dave Elliott is a noted expert, author, international speaker and an accomplished coach who gets results for his clients all over the world. He’s especially gifted at teaching smart, amazing women how to bring out the very best in men – rather than suffering through their worst. Whether he’s sharing his expertise in books or products or on some of today’s most widely-read relationship websites or on TV, radio or stage, you’ll come away with the new awareness, skills and strategies to get the breakthrough results you really want and need.
The world needs more: As a relationship coach, I want to say Peace Love & Understanding but Elvis Costello beat me to that. And your wife beat me to Peace Love & Gummy Worms. ;-) I have some other ideas, too.
WOW factor: I see the greatness in my clients before they, themselves, see it and then I reflect it back to them. At the same time, I encourage them & help them close the gap between where they are & where they want to be. I have dozens of examples of this in my "Very Satisfied Client Club."
Favorite Color: Purple...I'm a Baltimore Ravens season ticket holder for more than 20 years!
Guest: Matteo Charles
Age: 35 years
Location: Sydney, Australia
Bio: Matteo Charles is a live inspirational artist who turns a blank canvas into a masterpiece is 10 minutes live at events globally. Matteo has opened for identities such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, John Travolta, he was the official Artist for Bruce Lee’s 75th Anniversary in Hong Kong, performed at the 2018 F1 in Monaco, the Grammys after-party and much more. 13 years ago Matteo Charles was diagnosed with an incurable disease in which today he utilizes his platform of art to share his story
The World Needs More:
I have 2 quotes that are important to me that I thought of many years ago “Art heals” & “Without Inspiration, there’s only Desperation” I want to spread healing and inspiration through the platform of art helping people to find their light by being inspired by my story and never give up attitude.
WOW Factor:
My Wow factor is I turn a blank canvas into a portrait live at events in ten minutes. A few key events that have helped shape who I am today is having the opportunity to open for Sir Richard Branson in which I painted his portrait upside down (the canvas was upside down) and when I flipped the piece to reveal, the crowd roared - This particular piece was painted in 6 minutes. For me a special moment which also cemented my purpose was having the opportunity to perform at the celebration of Bruce Lee’s 75th anniversary in Hong Kong. Being a martial artist myself, sitting at a table next to Bruce Lee’s wife and daughter to then painting Bruce’s portrait live in front of their eyes is something that will forever be in my heART
Favorite Color: Orange
Guest: Nick Friedman
Age: 37 years
Location: Tampa, FL
Bio: Nick Friedman is President and Co-Founder of College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving, the largest and fastest-growing moving and junk removal franchise opportunity in North America. Nick started the business in college with his childhood best friend in a beat-up cargo van and has grown to over 100 franchises and $100 Million sales nationwide. He has since been named among the Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30 by INC Magazine and was named on the same list as Mark Zuckerberg as one of the 30 Most Influential CEO’s Under 30. Nick is a three-time Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, and he won the prestigious award in 2018. He has been featured in numerous business books and textbooks, as well as Forbes, Fortune, and many other national publications. Nick’s company has appeared every year on the INC 5000 list of Fastest-Growing US Companies and has appeared twice on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Nick is also a TV personality, having appeared as a guest on shows, including the first episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, and CNBC’s BlueCollar Millionaires. He is also a Board Member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). As an author, Nick co-wrote a bestselling book entitled Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions, which seeks to entertain and inspire budding entrepreneurs.
The world needs more:
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Purpose Driven Organizations
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Trust
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Positivity
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Altruism
WOW factor: I realized that I was never the most talented nor smartest person, but that I could make up for what I lacked in natural ability with hard work and persistence. A few moments that have helped shape this for me were when I pursued basketball in high school and college, I was always a benchwarmer, and I was able to work hard and eventually earn my way to a starting spot and eventually a college opportunity. Also when we launched our business in a highly competitive industry, and with persistence and hustle, we were able to overcome obstacles to win. My team members observe this work ethic and model it for themselves as well. I also realized that I enjoy coaching and inspiring others as a result of this.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Tara Mackey
Age: 32 years young
Location: San Diego, CA
Bio: Tara Mackey is the founder and CEO of The Organic Life, a successful holistic and sustainable living platform, and is a widely recognized activist with a tribe of over 1 million followers on her blog and social media. She founded the organic skincare company Genetix and is the #1 best-selling author of Cured by Nature and WILD Habits. Mackey, who has a background in psychology and genetics, left a coveted position at Weill Cornell Medical College in 2011 to travel to California to explore natural healing, yoga, and meditation. That same year she began utilizing holistic techniques to heal her chronic illnesses, going cold turkey off of fourteen daily medications, and healing herself naturally. She’s been on a conscious quest to move humanity in a more sustainable, healthy, and holistic direction ever since. Mackey was named “an accomplished musician” by Forbes and “a powerful voice in the smart, sexy, sustainable movement” by Coco Eco Magazine. Tara’s been recognized with numerous awards and nominations for her activism and entrepreneurship by giants like Oprah Magazine, Teen Vogue, Women’s Health, ABC, CBS, the United States Senate and many more. She resides in San Diego, California. Find her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
The World Needs More:
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Love
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Compassion
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Understanding
WOW Factor: My ability to evolve and grow. All of my experiences — even the bad ones — have contributed to help shape me and help me grow and heal.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest(s): Gaby & Raj Sundra
Age: 45 and 52 years young
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Bio: Gaby and Raj Sundra are the founders of Relationship Fun & Games, dedicated to relationships being more playful, peaceful and passionate. With more than 40 years of training and coaching between them and over a decade of being together in a committed relationship, Gaby and Raj have the education, experience, and attitude that can really help couples STOP FIGHTING and START HAVING FUN together instead. They help couples and individuals learn to “Keep the Fights Clean & the Sex Dirty” and to save being nasty for their sex life! BACKGROUND Both lovers of education, Gaby has a Masters Degree in Education, Counseling & Guidance and Raj has a Masters degree from Cornell University in Mechanical Engineering and Biomechanics with a minor in education. Gaby was in the past a teacher and counselor at Santa Barbara City College while Raj was the head of product design, taking Speck Products from $0 to $20 million in 3 years. They met, and soon both quit their careers to go make a bigger difference in the world, together. They live in Santa Barbara and now have two companies where they have counseled hundreds of teams, people and couples on how to… get clear on what they want (rather than complaining about what they don’t want) build habits around following through on what they said they wanted and on turning impossible dreams into awesome realities.
The world needs more: More playful, peaceful, passionate relationships. Happier, healthier, hotter relationships. Couples who engage in a pro-active, forward focus on what they can ALIGN on and move towards TOGETHER rather than waiting to fall into conflicts that position them as adversaries. Not to mention the world needs more lightening up about personal development, relationships, handling conflicts, pursuing goals, etc.
WOW factor: Most people say WOW when they see our love. Or more commonly "wow. I want what you have." To which we say "it didn't come out of a cracker jack box like a prize." We earned this intimacy by leaning into the lessons available in our conflicts. We were such a mess early on in our relationship that AT our engagement party, a dear friend pulled us aside, I thought to give us a gift. Instead, he said, "I don't think you should do this. It looks pretty messy to me from here." OUCH! But it WAS a gift. We knew the intuition that pulled us together would not be enough, we had to own our own upsets, refrain from blame and lean into the lessons we CHOSE with each other. We got married (even though some on the day of suggested we reconsider!) and it just got better and better and better to the point now that strangers on the street notice something is different about us and even stop us to say so. The second big moment was the first time we were asked t speak on relationships. Six couples spoke. We spoke 4th. People LOVED it. There was lots of praise and calling us to do more of it. The only complaint was people were laughing so much they couldn't hear everything we had said. It took two years of convincing after that but five years in we are loving being known for helping couples shift out of BLAME and into BLISS. WAY too many couple relationships go bad JUST when the transformation is getting good. One final WOW factor is we help couples create visions for their future that they are BOTH inspired by. Then we help them create goals every 90 days to make that vision more of a reality. I even craft a "mantra" they can say daily to anchor into who they SAY they want to be rather than waiting for the conflict to demand their attention and drain their energy. My husband and I say ours every morning at breakfast...."I love my marriage and my husband/wife. We are playful, peaceful and passionate. We're hot for each other and express it daily. We generate with intention. We communicate with care. We seek to spot, understand and meet each other's needs and delights. We contribute to the world. We care for our bodies. We're on top of what is to be done and abundant with our finances, time, energy and love." We remove the adversarial element and foster the ally opportunity. :-)
Favorite color: Orange
Guest: Susan Sly
Age: 46 years
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Bio: Susan Sly is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, tech investor, mom of 5, and has a passion for inspiring people to live a have it all life. Susan has completed the Boston Marathon 6X, placed top 10 in the pro division of the Ironman Triathlon in Malaysia with a fractured pelvis, and believes that we are capable of so much more than we give ourselves permission for. Her website is www.susansly.com
WOW factor: Gosh - let's see - I have gone undercover in a brothel in Cambodia to do recon for IJM, am a Boston Marathon bombing survivor, have been the top sales team producer in 3 multi-national companies, 5 kids...so many stories.
The world needs more: We are capable of so much more than what we give ourselves permission for. The world needs more people who release themselves from their self-imposed limits.
Favorite Color: red - I am half Asian...lol
Guest: Olivia Jaras
Age: 34 Years
Location: Hanover, NH
Bio: Olivia is an internationally recognized expert on the gender wage gap and salary negotiations for women and she is considered one of the top resume experts in the United States. Her work has been featured by Forbes, BBC, CNN, MSN, The World Economic Forum, Recruiter.com, Lifehack.com and hundreds of other media sources all over the world. The founder of Salary Coaching for Women (www.salarycoaching.com), Olivia is also an international, bestselling author of the book “Know Your Worth, Get Your Worth: Salary Negotiation for Women.” Together with her team of experts, Olivia helps women all over the world figure out their market value and how to advocate for it. In the corporate realm, Olivia works with companies to uncover budget-neutral ways to close internal gaps and is often invited as well to lecture and engage with all levels of company audiences. On a global scale, Olivia guides international workshops and advises international development organizations on strategies for closing the gender wage gap. Olivia lives in Hanover, NH with her husband and two daughters. A long-distance triathlete on Team USA, Olivia is a strong believer of eliminating the unnecessary roadblocks in order to successfully balance work, life, and personal ambitions.
The World Needs More: My sincere belief is that women need to be empowered to know their worth and understand how to advocate for it. Over the last few decades, there has been a huge move towards encouraging and government and company transparency relative to women salaries. But it’s all right coaching we believe that until women understand they’re worth, and they understand how to advocate for themselves, the gender wage gap will never close.
WOW factor: Wow factor: My ability to see the gift and women very clearly, and the ability to show them the path to make a living through expressing this gift. There are many, among them, having applied and been rejected from 1231 jobs in my youth, having suffered great embarrassment in the unemployment line during the great recession, having lost way too many loved ones... To landing my dream job and making an amazing living Helping women land their dream jobs and negotiate millions of dollars in raises and starting salaries.
Favorite Color: Teal
Guest: Marly Q. Casanova
Age: 35 years
Location: Miami, FL
Bio: Marly Q. is an award-winning Event Creator, Yoga Teacher, Non-Profit Coach and Inspirational Speaker who recently delivered a TEDx talk titled "Kindness is your Superpower". In 2010, she founded a non-profit and volunteer-driven movement called PARK Project & since then has been on a mission to inspire people to PARK (Perform Acts of Random Kindness) worldwide.
The World Needs More:
1. The world needs more PARKers! (people who Perform Acts of Random Kindness)
WOW factor: My WOW factor might just be that I actually believe that KINDNESS IS MY SUPERPOWER and that changing the state of our inner world (and outer world) can be as simple as BEING THE SPARK and remembering to PARK (Perform Acts of Random Kindness) for yourself and others every day.
Favorite Color: Yellow :)
Guest: Roxan McDonald
Age: 44 years
Location: Bay Area, California
Bio: Roxan McDonald is a writer, workshop facilitator, and coach. After fourteen years working on the front lines of addiction, trauma recovery and gang diversion Roxan quit the nonprofit world to dedicate herself to full-time writing and spreading her brand of edgy, playful, often irreverent spirituality and personal development. She launched the Instagram account @Spiritual_AF in 2013 which has gone on to gain over 79K devoted followers. In March 2019 Roxan and Knock Knock Publishing will release two decks of cards offering hundreds of ways for people to either be grateful AF or spiritual AF. Roxan is currently finishing a memoir about her own trauma recovery and battle with addiction.
The World Needs More Of:
1. Ferocious gratitude.
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Playfulness.
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Self-help without the self-helpy-ness.
Wow Factor: A nun once told me that "Wow." is the most pure prayer we can say. Wow reminds me to marvel at the beauty of the world and the creatures in it. Wow helps me be present and not back away from moments that seem inexplicably and unfairly difficult. Wow reminds me that I can be surprised by joy and beautiful just as easily as I can be surprised by chaos and heartbreak. The wow prayer has kept me right-sized over a lifetime of roller coaster ups and downs.
Favorite Color: Grey
Make Sure To Visit:
1. https://www.roxanmcdonald.com
2. https://www.instagram.com/spiritual_af/
Guest: Stef Taukafa
Age: 26 years
Location: Sydney, Australia
Bio: Born and raised in Sydney Australia Former Professional Rugby League player Husband to a beautiful woman name Justine Taukafa, Father to 3 angels (Mckenzie, Adelaide & Mary-Jane Taukafa) Entrepreneur as a personal development & mentor coach for professional athletes
World Needs More Of
- To really understand the true meaning of success and identity. “Education is a process of receiving and delivering” and that happens every day of our life that we have the opportunity to grow and learn about life’s experience and to identify what it will take to fulfill their full potential in life.
Wow factor: When I left my professional career to follow my gut feeling that wasn’t clear at that time and become one of the most powerful moments in life that’s made me the man I am today.
Favorite Color: Green
Guest: Dr. Rich Castellano, The Smile Dr :)
Age: 46 Calendar years
Location: Tampa, FL
Bio: Wall Street Journal best-selling author Dr. Rich Castellano, (Known as The Smile Dr.) is an experienced facial rejuvenation artist, innovator and founder of the award-winning Practice Profitability MD Online Coaching and Mentoring program (PracticeProfitabilityMD.com). Dr. Rich travels the country teaching communication skills and bedside manner to doctors, healthcare providers, the military, teachers, athletes, and students. His new book “The Smile Prescription,” shares how to create an instant connection by identifying, measuring, and creating nonverbal communication cues and facial expressions. He has made hundreds of live appearances, including guest interviews on The Daily Buzz, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, and numerous other media outlets. As the Founder/Medical Director of ImageLift®, Dr. Castellano has performed over 10,000 laser and cosmetic treatments of the face and neck, making him one of the most sought-after facial plastic surgeons in the U.S. today. (fb.com/imagelift) Outside of the office, there is never a dull moment for Dr. Rich as he spends time with his wife Irene and 3 beautiful children. His favorite exercise is burpees, and he does 300 every morning!
The World Needs More:
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Kindness
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Respect
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Communication
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Presence
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SMILES!! :)
WOW Factor: We can teach ANYONE to have more personality and connect more quickly and deeply by identifying, measuring, and creating correct body language and facial expression cues :) Working with thousands of patients and training live audiences has allowed us to continue to refine and enhance our strategies :)
Favorite Color: Purple
Guest: Andrea Shaw Nevins
Age: 53
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Bio: Andrea Shaw Nevins is a life coach, an academic, and a motivational blogger. She completed the Martha Beck Life Coach Training Program and offers a range of services and products that support people on the path to boundless possibilities. She is also a professor, chair of the Department of History and Political Science, and assistant dean for academic affairs in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. She is the author of The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies. Her forthcoming book Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. Her fiction, as well as her scholarly writing, have been published in numerous journals, including Small Axe, World Literature Today, MaComére, The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Feminist Media Studies, and Social Semiotics. She graduated from the University of Miami with a Ph.D. in English and from Florida International University with an M.F.A in creative writing.
The World Needs More:
1. Embracing of fear and disappointment as guides to our paths.
WOW factor: ability to help folks reconceptualize of their lives and believe in new possibilities. Moments: My transition from being a struggling small business owner to a student immersed in the passionate study of English and the way how everything on my path rose up to meet me.
Favorite Color: Purple
Guest: Rock Thomas
Age: Limitless!
Location: Oh Canada!
Bio: From humble beginnings on a small Canadian farm near Montréal, Rock Thomas become a self-made millionaire, running several successful businesses and six award-winning RE/MAX franchises.
After achieving epic financial success, showered with accolades and awards, Rock embarked on a quest for personal growth, traveling the world and studying with acclaimed teachers like Tony Robbins, T. Harv Eker, Deepak Chopra, John Gray, David Deida, David Wolfe, Jack Canfield, Dr. Wayne Dyer, and Stephen Covey.
He absorbed success systems, life and business strategies, and countless life-changing experiences. After assimilating all he’d learned and talking with people from all walks of life who were seeking more too, he founded Rock Thomas International to bring the best-of-the-best to the world. His programs blend his extensive knowledge about personal development with cutting-edge success formulas designed to produce whole-life wealth.
Wow Factor: Tune in and find out! (you are going to LOVE IT!)
The World Needs More:
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Self Love
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Transparency
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Authenticity
Favorite Color: TBD
Guest: Bridgett Burrick Brown
Age: Forever Young :)
Location: New York, NY
Bio: Mom. Wife. Model. Writer.
The World Needs More:
- Less Judgement + More Compassion
Wow factor: My ability to be resilient. Also, if I do something I try and do it right which I think turns into me having a voice that people listen to. I grew up with a sick mother. I lost my parents and older brother in a 2-year time frame while my husband had cancer. I lost 3 pregnancies in a year. 2 of them pretty far along. I had to surrender and heal and DECIDE to create my life how I was going to live it.
Favorite Color: Purple or White
Guest: Caroline Pugh
Age: 26 years
Location: Washington, DC
Bio: Caroline Pugh is the Chief of Staff at CareJourney, a healthcare data analytics company based in Washington D.C. She is the Chief of Staff to Aneesh Chopra, the former Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Pugh is currently an advisor to Prime Chief of Staff, where she has helped build a national and international network of Chiefs of Staff. Pugh is also the Senior Advisor to the Africa Rising Foundation, a non-profit focused on youth empowerment and leadership in Africa started by Ndaba Mandela. Caroline was previously the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of VirtualU, a tech startup that developed 3D human scanning technology, that she started while an undergraduate at Virginia Tech. Pugh was the former Global Director of Partnerships and the Washington, D.C., President of Kairos Society, one of the world's largest student-run nonprofit organizations for entrepreneurship. She was also a contributor on health and entrepreneurship for the Huffington Post and a public speaker, where she has been invited to speak at international events like the Ambrosetti Forum, Milken Global Conference and the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit. She was recently named "15 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch" by Entrepreneur magazine and "master networker" in Forbes. Pugh has also been cited in the Washington Post, Fox News, NBC, TechCrunch, USA, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal for her work.
The World Needs More:
1. Authentic connecting for good
WOW factor: Tune in and find out!!
Favorite color: Purple
Guest: Andy Stein
Age: 54 Years
Location: New York, NY
Bio: Andrew Stein founded the Orphaned Starfish Foundation in 2001 to help orphans, victims of abuse and at-risk children worldwide escape their cycles of poverty and abuse through education and job training. From humble beginnings building a small computer vocational training center in an orphanage for young victims of abuse in Santiago, Chile, he has built the Foundation to now serve over 13,000 children in 60 programs in 27 countries: Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Honduras, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Ecuador, Haiti, Cambodia, Colombia, Ethiopia, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Uruguay, American Samoa & Nepal. Andy has partnered with local partners in each of these countries, including Save the Children, Rotary Club, and USAID. "Tio Andy! Tio Mago!" Andy makes yearly visits to each Orphaned Starfish program. Mago is Spanish for Magician. He brings a magic show complete with balloon animals for all the children. (His highest amount recorded was 1,000 balloon animals in one sitting.) His visits also allow for a personal connection not only to the children but to the institutions and their directors and teachers. Every visit helps OSF learn what is needed at our programs so we may better serve these children. Every trip also allows for new program scouting. For his work helping the children of the favelas of Brazil, Andy was awarded an Honorary Citizenship in Rio De Janeiro by their Congress. In the United States, he has also been awarded the Jefferson Award for Community Service, the key to the city of Miami Beach, NJ Islanders Hometown Hero, Commack High School Alumni of the Year, and several other state and local honors. He and the Orphaned Starfish Foundation have been featured on CNN, CNN en Espanol, Forbes, CBS News, Fox News, ABC News, Telemundo, and Univision as well as in the Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Star-Ledger, Jewish Week and US Magazine. Prior to his work with Orphaned Starfish, Andy was active in Special Olympics, Rotary Club, and Counterpart International. Andy Stein is a recovering banker having worked in banking for nearly 25 years. He was President and CEO of Makopastreet Partners, LLC. Makopastreet Partners provides senior debt financing for luxury and ultra-luxury hotel, and mixed-use developments, as well as infrastructure projects worldwide. Andy has been a featured speaker at several industry conferences worldwide and was a guest professor on the topic of international hotel finance at Wharton for the past several years. Andy was a Senior Vice President at a large German Bank, running their Hospitality Division and, prior to that was a Vice President at Chase and its predecessor institutions focussing on Infrastructure and Project Finance. From 1993 – 1996, Andy was based in Manila, the Philippines as the Joint Head of Corporate Finance for Chase’s (formerly Chemical Bank’s) Manila Branch. During his tenure in Manila, Andy developed the Bank’s project finance and hospitality expertise in the Philippines. Andy also was instrumental in the execution of the Brady Plan bonds, which restructured the bank debt of several Latin American and Asian countries. Andy holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from the University of Virginia. Andy is married to Dilia Stein and has two sons, all very much involved with Orphaned Starfish Foundation. Andy lives in New York City when not traveling for the Foundation.
The World Needs More Of:
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Caring for Others: People willing to give an opportunity to those most in need of it.
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Love, Laughter and, of course Magic
Wow Factor: My WOW factor is that I left a successful career in banking to spend my life dedicated to helping orphans, victims of abuse, survivors of trafficking, indigenous children and at-risk youth break their cycles of abuse and poverty. Over 18 years ago, I was one of the top fliers for Continental Airlines for all my business travel. I told each bank country manager that in order for me to get on another plane and pitch business, they had to find me an orphanage and time in the schedule to play with those kids, make balloon animals and help them with their work and homework. 18 years ago, in one such orphanage in Chile, the nuns told me that when each girl reached the age of adulthood, they had to leave the orphanage and each girl that left would become a prostitute or live on the streets. I started the Orphaned Starfish Foundation to help these girls, building a state of the art computer center in their orphanage, and it was magic. Six months later the younger girls were the head of their classes, the older girls learned computer skills, and, since we started, only one girl went to the streets, and all others got into university or got jobs.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Carol-Ann Reid
Age: 30 years
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Bio: Carol-Ann Reid is an international Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Radio Presenter and Motivational Speaker from the UK. She believes that through self-awareness, a clear vision and collective consciousness, we can each be living the life that we are destined for, and co-create a positive movement around the world. It all starts with you! Having lost her Step Dad to suicide and her best friend to cancer within just 18 months, she found herself with two choices; breakdown and lose herself in the anxiety and guilt, or get up and do whatever it takes to help other people with their mindset and being light into darkness. Carol-Ann now specializes in helping people create a life free from anxiety, lack of self-belief and feeling stuck, by helping to re-create their self-identity and ignite their happiness from within. The “Warrior Within” movement supports those who are ready to step into their power and “Awaken the Warrior Within”. Thus resulting in increasing their happiness, finances, and freedom both physically, spiritually and mentally.
The World Needs More:
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Authenticity
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Spiritual Warriors
Wow Factor: My WOW factor is my ability to help people expand their way of thinking and create positive change. A few moments that helped shape it over the years sound painful, they were at the time but I now see them as lessons and I am grateful for the experiences. They were the platform which I needed to fall down on before rebuilding stronger than I was before. I was held against my will in an apartment for 3 days when I was 20, I was made to take drugs and physically assaulted. I had to escape from where I was, which was one of my wake up calls! I began rebuilding my life which lead me to discover the power of self-identity and internal happiness. I lost my stepdad to suicide a few years ago and this opened up my eyes to the power of the mind and the impact our thinking and self-talk has on our lives. This led me to dedicate my career to learning about mindset, neuroscience, spirituality and I became a mindset coach specializing in CBT and NLP. Helping others overcome their negative self-talk, discovering who they truly are and awaken the Warrior Within.
Favorite Color: Yellow
Guest: Alex Marson
Age: 39 years
Location: San Francisco
Bio: The Marson lab at UCSF is developing CRISPR engineering technologies to reprogram human immune cells to create a new class of treatments for cancer, autoimmune diseases, and infectious diseases. Alex Marson completed medical school at Harvard, Ph.D. training at the Whitehead Institute/MIT, Internal Medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s and clinical training in Infectious Diseases at UCSF. Marson received the prestigious UCSF Sandler Faculty Fellowship, which offered him an accelerated path to start his own lab. Marson is now an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Microbiology and Immunology, with joint appointments in the Department of Medicine and the Diabetes Center. He is also affiliated with the UCSF Helen Diller Cancer Center. He is the scientific director of biomedicine at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) and was selected as one of the inaugural Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigators. His lab integrates systems-scale investigations of human T cell circuitry with functional perturbation studies, including genome editing in primary T cells.
The World Needs More:
- Connection -- a shared sense of meaning and purpose. Where there is connection there is hope!
Wow Factor: Tune in and find out!
Favorite Color: TBD
Guest: Troy Olds
Age: 47 years
Location: Boise, Idaho
Bio: Troy teaches entrepreneurs and high achievers to optimize their brains & bodies so they can build stronger businesses and communities. Better sleep & self care Better nutrition & supplementation Better strength & movement Better breathing & meditation
The world needs more: I believe the world needs more people who understand that they matter and that they are always making an impact in the world whether positive or negative. That they change the world every time they change their minds. I believe the world needs more people practicing and teaching how to use the mind & body to affect change in their own lives as well as the world they live in. It is learnable and we live in the most amazing time where internal exploration has become an exciting adventure producing extraordinary change. If we are going to take something mainstream, let it be to practice and teach the exploration of that kingdom of heaven of our own conscious and unconscious mind.
Wow factor: I make others feel safe so that we can have vulnerable and authentic conversations in which we explore new ways to live our lives more responsibly and awake to what life can teach us. Pain and the process of moving through it have been my greatest teachers. Deep pain has given me the eyes to feel extraordinary joy, hear my intuition and understand the empathy I've always experienced. With those life experiences and a constant seeking out of coaches & associations who live lives I respect, I learn from them and continue to create a life that looks more and more like that of the vision I hold in my mind of my higher self.
Favorite Color: What's the name of the color of a sunset? That's my favorite color
Guest: Whitney Vosburgh
Age: 62 years
Location: Berkeley, CA
Bio: Whitney Vosburgh is a co-founder of WORK THE FUTURE! Today, a social venture that offers vision, leadership, and solutions for maximizing personal, organizational and societal potential, and co-author of two recent WORK THE FUTURE! TODAY books on purpose, passion, and prosperity. He is the co-founder of Brand New Purpose, a brand transformation consultancy that creates purpose-built, value-driven opportunities. Whitney is also a consulting Chief Marketing Officer and change agent for Fortune 20 companies and Silicon Valley startups, guiding over $20 billion worth of M&A, IPOs, sales, pivots, and launches. His work is featured in numerous media outlets including ABC, BBC, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report, Venture, and The Wall Street Journal. He graduated with an M.A. in Religious Leadership for Social Change from the Graduate Theological Union, and with a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in New York City. Whitney’s expertise on the Future of Work has been featured in four books, including a bestseller by Dan Pink. When he is not focusing on sustainable business consulting and writing, he can be found making art, and his work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the world. His Tweets can be found at: @brandguru.
The World Needs More:
What the world needs is more shared positive and aligned purpose and value so that we can all become even better together. The world needs a new Operating System as capitalism as it is currently practiced has taken us as far as it can and now threatens our very existence as well as all other living beings and the life system that supports us all. The world would benefit from a new GPS—Global Purpose System—that can take us from the Old Story of Profit First to the New Story of Purpose First, and from the old triple bottom line of profit, people, planet to the new of planet, people, profit and then onto prosperity. Why? Because: no planet, no people, and no people, no profit. Besides, good planets are hard to find!
WOW factor: My WOW—World of Wonder—is that I combine head, heart, and hands with a global perspective. The head represents purpose and business. The heart represents passion, spirituality, and art. The hands represent practice and creation. Having lived all around the world, worked on Wall Street and in the C Suite of Fortune 20 companies, studied at divinity and art schools, and followed the beat of my own drum, I bring a unique POV and gifts to life.
Favorite Color: Turquoise.
Guest: Nicole Walters
Age: 34 years
Location: Atlanta, GA
Bio: After working as a powerhouse sales executive at Fortune 500 companies for over 10 years, Nicole Walters quit her job live on Periscope in front of 10,000 people to start her own business. Less than one year later, Nicole had grown her business, The Monetized LifeTM, into a transformative lifestyle brand. Along the way she documented her entrepreneurial journey online, earning her a strong social following, many viral videos, and appearances on Forbes, Good Morning America, and UsWeekly. Through online courses, consulting and networking, Nicole teaches everyday entrepreneurs how to use the proven strategies she mastered in the corporate world to build multiple steady streams of income. Her flagship course, $1K1Day, has helped hundreds of people ranging from single parents to small business owners generate millions in passive income and achieve financial independence. You can count on Nicole for two things: infectious energy and actionable insight. If she hasn’t tested a tactic, she won’t talk about it – and if she has, she’ll share what worked, what didn’t, and why. Whether you own a business, run one on the side or haven’t started one yet, you’ll leave equipped and inspired to find provision in your purpose. Nicole is married to her amazing husband, and general counsel- and mother to 3 adopted sisters, ages 7,16, and 19. They live in Atlanta, GA.
What The World Needs More Of:
1. Extending grace to one another.
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Good facial exfoliation + Strong trustworthy eyebrows
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More people living in their purpose!
WOW Factor: Transforming my personal ability to work through my fears, into a story or message that allows others to work through their own. In documenting my business and adoption journey online- viewers have had a transparent, and authentic look at the behind the scenes journey of becoming a mom (from meeting my kids on the streets of Baltimore), to building a multi 7 figure business (from the bathroom vanity table of a falling apart 100 year old house). I was scared the whole time- but because I can do it, it means they can too.
Favorite Color: Yellow!
Guest: Jordyn Kraemer
Age: 29 years
Location: New York, NY
Bio: Born in California, raised in Minnesota, native New Yorker by design, Jordyn Kraemer lasted only a few months in the corporate world before leaving the safety net of the 9-5 for a life of adventure, travel, and edification. Having manifested her career and lifestyle from the age of 13, Jordyn has created a path for herself that has brought her to the ends of the Earth. From stargazing the Northern Lights in Iceland to skydiving the peaks of Dubai to swimming with the dolphins in Zanzibar, her writing, events, and brand have been an integral tool in the insatiable wanderlust that is Jordyn’s life work. The Blonde Vagabond is a travel and luxury editorial, documenting the best that the world has to offer and artfully sharing its intimacies. From the first-person narrative to white label production and content development, she works closely with the biggest brands in the world to tell a meaningful story. The goal for Jordyn has always been to experience, share, and inspire.
The World Needs More:
- Finding & Following your truth
2. The world needs more authentic, raw love. Love without screens, or borders. A love that comes from deep-rooted trust in yourself and in the good in people. One that is perpetual and unwavering. Unbiased and abundant. That’s what the world needs.
WOW Factor: I believe my wow factor is my inability to take no as an answer. My refusal to settle, to just accept things as they appear. I want to destroy stereotypes and social norms. I want to inspire and dream, I will never let anyone define what my life looks like, I always follow my heart and trust my journey.
Favorite Color: Olive green
Guest: Antonio Ciraco
Age: 31 years
Location: Tampa, FL
Bio: My name is Antonio Ciraco and I am a Sales Professional for one of the Nations largest Mercedes Benz Dealerships. I’m 31 years young and full of life! I absolutely love living life on the edge and love to take risks! I believe I am extremely successful with my career because of my past and upbringing. I live for giving back to my family and setting my future up for success while never losing site of who I am and where I have been.
The World Needs More: World needs more people to be kind, care forgiving and smile more. Care about people, things and themselves. If you care and smile more you may just change someone else’s day and who knows what they are going through and what a simple smile or a wave may make someone feel :]. Also be more kind and curteous. It’s effortless. One of my favorite quotes was from a tv show called Friday night lights. It was “there is no weakness in forgiving”. Think about that and let it sit in. There is not weakness in forgiving. If you can try and forgive someone that doesn’t make you a weak person in fact it makes you much stronger and builds your character!
WOW factor: Wow factor for me are a few periods of my life. One is from losing a ton of weight, 85lbs to be exact and the next is my career. What has wowed me is reflecting on the process when I lost the weight and seeing how I, in only 7 months, lost 85lbs by doing it the right way. Changing the way I ate and going to the gym 6-7 days a week. People say they can’t do it but really that is an excuse. By just getting up and making that first step, you’ve already started doing it. Seeing where I was and what I did to accomplish such a hard goal was a huge WOW factor because I have always struggled with weight and seeing the change in my confidence, quality of life, energy and appearance really put me in shock. Next is my career. I have never been more successful than I am right now and do not confuse my confidence with cockiness because bye no means that is that the case. I love what I do and I am very good at it. I’m not your typical pressure kind of sales guy. I am an experience type of salesman. When you get me you are getting the experience. You know the brand your buying so why not just touch base with a few features, safety items but let’s focus on the experience. This has given me a huge set reflection on myself and has given me the confidence in that I know I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing right now and I am killing it! I love the brand, I love my clients and more importantly I love my career and for that I am WOWED by it. But a side note all of this couldn’t and maybe it could’ve but in my eyes I couldn’t and wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for my parents upbringing. They are my personal wow factor and the reason I am so successful. I work hard so that I can give back to them and try and wow my mom and dad sonthdt they can sit back and say wow that’s my son and we raised him right.
Favorite Color: Blue!
Guest: Dennis Nafte
Age: 36 years
Location: East Islip, NY
Bio: My ultimate goal in life and my main why has always been to be the best family man I could be, which is why I am a first a husband and a father. I’m married 13 years and have 2 kids ages 5 and 2. I was also an accomplished division 1 student athlete at Stony Brook University. I have a masters degree in education and was also selected to the 2003 division 1 college lacrosse all star team. I was one of the top 5 faceoff men in the country. After feeling frustrated with our current education system and looking for a way to make a bigger impact, I became an entrepreneur and CEO. I started my first company shortly after college and am now the founder and CEO of 4 privately held companies. I believe in giving back and currently support organizations like New York City relief, Easter seals, Bww charities, stony brook lacrosse, Long Beach sports programs, and beauty cares. I truly believes that to who much is given much is expected. My main passion today is mentoring and coaching others to find and develop their purpose in life. What brings me the greatest joy is helping people to identify their talents and abilities and use them in a positive way to better others lives.
The World Needs More: I believe the world needs more of self love because it’s hard to love others until You love yourself. I would love the opportunity to gain your insight on the subject and help people know they are great and we all have magic in us. Especially in a world with social media where people are always comparing themselves to others. I want to help them grow their self image and truly find themselves and help overcome the growing epidemic of depression. One statement that I heard recently that changed my life and meant so much to me was “I’d rather people hate me for who I am then love me for who I’m not”.
Wow Factor: I guess my wow would be my heart and passion for others and to give as much value as I can. I also have a decent sense of humor and seem to be able to make people laugh a lot, which brings me a lot of joy to see people happy. There have been many moments that have shaped my life. Dislocating my elbow my senior year of college only 4 games into the season and having my whole life’s purpose up until that point almost ended made me start to really think about my future. Overcoming the depression and fighting my way back into the season even when all the doctors told me I was done showed me the power of the human mind and soul.
Probably the second was even more recently after accomplishing so many goals of having our dream house, dream cars, and financial goals realizing that it doesn’t really make you happy and fulfilled. That it can also leave you feeling very empty and also create more fear then having nothing which is having everything and losing it. Really realizing that happiness comes from the pursuit of fulfilling our potential on a daily basis and being able to help others do the same. This may seem a little corny but I was watching the movie cool runnings which I had seen dozens of times but this time I heard something that changed my life and it was when the coach said to the driver. “If your not enough without the gold you won’t be enough with it” it hit me so hard because the real win in life is not what we get from it but who we become through it. I believe so many people think they’ll be happy after they do this or they do that without realizing that happiness is a choice that comes from within.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Manisha Thakor
Age: 48 years
Location: Portland, OR
Bio: Manisha Thakor serves as the vice president of financial education at Brighton Jones, one of the nation’s most innovative and rapidly growing wealth management firms. With the firm’s support, she is launching her true WELLth podcast in mid-February 2019 that will help people shed the flawed equation that wealth = happiness by giving them tools from a wide range of experts on how to redefine success and craft one’s own definition of true WELLth. Manisha is a Harvard MBA, CFA, CFP, as well as an author/speaker/teacher with extensive national media experience. Visit MoneyZen.com for a full listing of Manisha’s impressive accomplishments over her 25-year career.
The World Needs More Of:
1. A more heartfelt, soulful definition of “enough”
WOW factor: “Simplicity, Small Joys, Financial Independence.” I wrote this down on a napkin as I was flying back from spending a year abroad studying at Oxford University 1990-1991… reflecting upon what I’d learned and what I wanted to use as the core anchors for my life. 28 years later, those three touchstones remain the same and have helped me at points of confusion, overwhelm or crisis… more easily identify (even from a list of really sub-optimal choices!) what next step would bring me back closer to those guiding principals.
Favorite Color: Fuchsia
Guest: Matt Aitchison
Age: 30 years
Location: Sacramento, CA
Bio: Matt Aitchison is a multi 7-figure real estate investor, business coach, speaker and philanthropist. He is the Founder and CEO of Matt Aitchison Media Inc, a personal development and real estate investment e-learning company that helps high achievers create more wealth, freedom, and fulfillment in their life and business
The World Needs More: More "whole life millionaires" - people who live like millionaires in all gardens of their life. By doing this, we'd not only have happier people chasing their definition of a rich life, we'd have more balanced and fulfilled individuals contributing at a high level
Wow Factor: expelled from high school, arrested in college, took extreme ownership of my life and committed to a life of service and growth, which has led to many entrepreneurial successes in real estate, philanthrophy, traveling, etc
Favorite Color: Green
Guest: Richard McCann
Age: 49 years
Location: United Kingdom
Bio: Richard McCann is a Sunday Times No1 Bestselling author. His first book, ‘Just a Boy’, sold close to ½ million copies and has been translated around the world. He's a Motivational Speaker who overcame an almightly fear of speaking to having now spoken 2500 times across the globe as far and wide as Malaysia, South Africa, Iran, Switzerland, Canada and many more. He's also a Presentation Skills Coach. He has been the subject of two BBC documentaries about his extraordinary life story. Brought up on the ‘At Risk’ register until his mother was murdered by the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe (The Yorkshire Ripper), Richard went on a downward spiral. Foster homes, children’s home and then a violent upbringing by his estranged father took away any self esteem that he had. He left school with no qualifications and was kicked out of the army for psychological reasons before he turned to drugs to ease his depression. After a prison sentence for a drugs offence, and with his home about to be possessed, Richard hit rock bottom where he considered taking his life. It was at this point that he found the gut wrenching determination to turn his life around and fight for a better future. That turn around has been remarkable. Now married with a family of his own, three books about his life being published, and a much sought after inspirational speaker. His presentation centres on the way in which he has turned, what can only be described as insurmountable odds, to his favour and has shaped a more positive life for himself. It’s one that most people don’t forget in a hurry.
The World Needs More: I believe the world needs more kindness and compassion and understanding that we are one world and one human race. It's not what I speak on ordinarily.
Wow Factor: My WOW factor for many is that fact that I overcame what for many would send them under. The murder of my mother when I was a five year old boy. Losing mum and a number of other setbacks along the way have in fact shaped the person I am today. Putting that to one side for a moment, one of the moments that have sahped what I do now, being a speaker, was taking part in the public speaking competition at school, at the age of 12, which I won. It took incredible courage to get on stage with no confidence and low self esteem. When I first started speaking professionally in 2005, I was a terrible speaker. So I went out there and studied great speaekers including Tony Robbins. I modelled what those speakers did and, well, the rest is history.
Favorite Color: Orange
Guest: Soliman Arab,
Age: 37 years
Location: Kuwait
Bio: Soliman Arab is the founder of Vigor-Enterprise that is managed by a group of young Egyptian entrepreneurs who decided to accumulate the professional experience they own in one place, Soliman has a recognized experience in many compatible areas; human resources development, business startups, leadership & career development programs, team building, performance assessment centers, team building activities, recruitment and headhunting, marketing and events management. Vigor-Enterprise powers four business units that in harmony demonstrate the entrepreneurial spirit of the management team. Vigor-Events, Vigor-Academy, Vigor-Hunt and Vigor-Studio serve the Middle East market in a creative and effective attitude through regional offices in Cairo and Kuwait. www.vigorenterprise.com
The World Needs More Of:
- Cross cultural communication & understanding
Wow factor: I guess my wow factor would be Creativity that helped me run a successful business ... also, communicating with people is another wow factor that helped me in building successful relationships with ppl from different backgrounds
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Mark Ormrod
Age: 35 years old
Location: United Kingdom
Bio: Former Royal Marines Commando UK's First Triple Amputee From Afghanistan Father Of 3 Award Winning Author
The World Needs More: I'm not sure what the word is, maybe gratitude but people need to be much more aware of the good in there lives and focus on that instead of the bad.
WOW Factor: Well as it says in my bio I was the UK's first triple amputee from Afghanistan which sent me on a huge journey of self discovery as well as on a mission to find a mentor. I've been wheelchair free since June 9th 2009, held down a full time job since July 2010, fathered 2 more children since being injured and became a mini-entrepreneur in the process because I was trying to show people that life doesn't end when you face challenges, it just forces you to be more resourceful and to figure ways around lives obstacles.
Favorite Color: Yellow
Guest: Denis Estimon
Age: 20 years old
Location: Boca Raton, FL
Bio: Denis Estimon immigrated to the U.S. from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when he was in the rst grade. Not being able to communicate with his classmates, Denis knows what it feels like to be isolated. Now, Denis makes it his life-purpose to make sure no kid has to feel the way he felt. During his senior year in high school, Denis and his friends launched We Dine Together for the sole purpose of combating social isolation. The story reached over 20 Million people after CBS featured the story and the work done by the students. Estimon is stepping into his new role at Be Strong, while currently enrolled at Everglades University, Majoring in Business. We Dine Together aimed to provide a proactive solution to one of the leading top- ve safety, health and social issues. While the program began to grow, Estimon realized the work needed structure and a scalable model with sustainable tools. Enter Be Strong. We Dine Together is now part of the fabric of Be Strong’s comprehensive approach. Denis aims to promote the message of unity, love, and inclusion as a speaker, activist, influencer, and now Director at Be Strong.
The World Needs More:
1. Compassion for others
Wow factor: I am very good Bowler :)
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Johnny Stone
Age: 32
Location: San Diego, CA
Bio: Navy Chief, speaker, mentor and author of Finding Good.
The Worlds Needs More:
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Kindness
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Faith
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Love
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The will to live the best version of your life each day!
WOW factor: My ability to find the good in every situation and never give up. I lost my wife/high school sweetheart to stage 4 appendix cancer 2 years ago. The 2nd she was diagnosed we made the promise to eachother to find the good in every single day and live life to the absolute best of our abilities and that's exactly what we did. Then the day before she passed away in my arms she made me promise to continue to find the good in every day, continue to do good things and open my heart up to love again. Check Check Check I've done all three and I will never stop. It's like once all the heartache happened I was born with a whole new set of eyes and an extreme amount of passion to live life, help others and remind the world just how short life really is.
Favorite Color: Red
Guest: Christy Sanborn (41 years young) + Eva Humber (31 years young)
Location: Livingston, NJ
Bio:
Christy: Hey! I my name is Christy Sanborn and I am a full time Mom, Podcaster, Life Coach, Optomist, and Stylist. I am always on a mission to inpire others and to take on a leadership role every day.
Eva: I am a 31 year old co-host of the Landing Strip Podcast and it is my goal to share my experiences (good and bad) with others in the hopes that I can help even ONE person have a better day and pass it along to someone else.
The World Needs More:
Christy: I believe the world need more of people living in the moment and not behind their phones. I believe that a simple hello to a stranger can change someone’s day. I believe that kids need role models. I believe that being humble is one of the best qualities a person can have. I believe in making wishes on birthday candles, and on pennies into fountains. I believe the world needs more people sharing there time, and believes, and affection to others.
Eva: Listening, Kindness, Trust, and Learning
WOW factor:
Christy: I am always the person people can count on to give a 100% honest, kind , loving , nonjudgmental opinion on anything.
Eva: Having caught the travel bug at a young age, I was able to travel without fear or expectations and learn about how people live HAPPILY and absorb the differences in cultures and pick out my favorite bits from around the world to apply to my every day attitude and outlook.
Favorite Color:
Christy: Gray
Eva: Black
Guest: Vanessa T
Age: 36
Location: Miami, FL
Bio: Hello! I’m Vanessa - I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. By day, I’m a publicist for an entertainment media company. Presently residing in Miami with my husband and two adorable pups.
The World Needs More:
1. Love.. sweet love ... I kid - but not really - I believe it needs a good dose of kindness, laughter and selflessness.
Wow Factor: I’ve had several humbling moments - including the sudden death of my mom and an incredible trip around the world during my college years. The shock of losing someone so close to you puts a lot of things in perspective- your priorities shift and you become in a way stronger for those around you. On the other hand, travel has really opened my eyes and taught me so many lessons that are still relevant today.
Favorite Color: Yellow (and green to wear!)
Guest: Gene McNaughton
Age: 50
Location: Mission Viego, CA
Bio: President of Growthsmart Consulting - a boutique full service consulting firm (Sales, Marketing, and SF.com) serving mid size and large clients (ie: T-Mobile, Tyco Security, Johnson Controls, Divisions of Panasonic, just to name a few) - every company comes to us because they want to grow faster, better, and smarter
What The World Needs More of:
- Better Parenting
2. As it relates to Sales/Growth - a solid understanding of todays buying landscape. We buy differently today, whether we are individuals, or businesses. Smart salespeople understand this, and have changed they way they go after their market. This includes BOTH sales and marketing approaches. Hard core selling techniques of the 80's are taboo today. The market is craving companies/people to teach them how to be better buyers of their products and services.
WOW FACTOR: The major WOW factor is having a track record of record breaking results where ever I have been. Whether it was with Gateway Computers, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes, or in consulting over 100 companies, my record is consistent, and in most cases, produced all time records.
Favorite Color: Dark Blue
Guest: Debra Cummings
Age: 64
Location: Southern + Central California
The world needs more:
- Kindness + Everything that comes with it!
Favorite color: I love varying shades of colors. Especially shades of purples and greens. When there are varying shades, each shade enhances the beauty of the other shades.
Something special to share with our community: I wish people recognized the power within them rather than seeking it from an outside source.
Guest: Morgan Fay
Age: 26
Location: Birmingham, U.K.
Bio: Morgan is the author of the book titled ‘Life Without Mum’ a self help guide, which encourages self-love and self-care for people who have lost their mother. Morgan’s mother passed away when she was teenager and since then she has always felt in her heart that she wanted to in someway, help and support other people who could relate with such heartbreak. Morgan has first hand experience of loss and depression and with her book ‘Life Without Mum’, Morgan creates a safe space for people to heal, relate and express themselves. The book has and is helping people daily. It features her own story, other peoples stories of their own personal loss, strengths and their journey so far in life. It gives helpful tips and ideas for how to self-care and is written in the style of a journal. It truly is a special gem of a book that emits healing and honest comfort. The book is currently available on Amazon, and Morgan also hopes to get the book in stores and local libraries. Morgan is also completing her second book which will be released at the end of this year! Morgan comes from an artistic background, having grew up surrounded by music and the arts, Morgan truly appreciates the magnificent and infinite space of creativity! Morgan creates handmade pieces of bespoke jewellery, more specifically bridal accessories. Morgan currently attends a jewellery course at Inspire in Worcestershire where she learns from her amazing mentor and tutor Jo and plans to further her jewellery expertise after the course finishes. Morgan is a lover of life! Morgan appreciates nature and wholesomeness and has learnt a great deal after the loss of her mother especially. Morgan has a deep gratitude for life & good people and truly believes in having a deep faith in unconditional love. Her faith is what has got her to this point and she’s determined to keep loving, shining and being. If you would like to purchase her book/jewellery or to get in touch, her website is: goldenleafco.co Morgan would love to hear from you! And if you would like some plant-based foodie tips she has some beautiful recipes on her website for you to enjoy too!
The World Needs More:
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Nurturing
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Healing
WOW Factor: I would say my WOW factor is my resilience and capacity to love! The loss of my mother helped shape me into a resilient young woman. Also experiencing break through moments, truly helped shape me to see life with empathy and compassion for all.
Favorit Color: This is not so black & white for me! The colours depend on my mood. I love greens, warm browns, burgundies and oranges! I love greens and that gold colour you see when it glistens through the leaves of an unwavering tree. I love all colours!
Guest: Dave Sanderson
Age: 57
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Wow Factor: I believe my WOW factor is the ability to be resourceful and I've had several instances where I have been able to practice and hone it, one in surviving a plane crash in ice cold water.
What the world needs more of: Understanding of others points of perspective.
Bio: Dave Sanderson is the President of his firm, Dave Sanderson International based out of Charlotte, NC. On January 15, 2009, Dave was one of the last passengers off the plane that crashed into the Hudson River, best known as “The Miracle on the Hudson” and was largely responsible for making sure others made it out safely. In addition to speaking, mentoring, coaching and training, Dave conducts workshops, is a much sought-after podcast celebrity, an author with his best-selling book titled “Moments Matter”, hosts his own radio show on Contact Talk Radio and C-Suite Radio called “Moments Matter with Dave Sanderson” and his daily flash briefing on Amazon Alexa titled, “Dave Sanderson: DECLASSIFIED.” He shares the 12 skills he learned when he was the director of security for Anthony Robbins that he employed that day and during his 30+ year sales career which helped him be a top producer in every organization he was with and how you can use them to not only survive but grow and thrive in your life. In his TEDx talk “Bouncing Back,” Dave shares strategies on how to grow from your “personal plane crash” in life, known as PTGS (Post Traumatic Growth Syndrome). Dave is a faculty member with Dominique Wilkins, Don Barden, Brittany Tucker, and Steve Nedvidek at the Leadership Mindset Series in Atlanta, GA, the first and only servant leadership coaching program designed to help business leaders around the world to build a happier, more-productive business with a better bottom line. He and his wife, Terri, reside in Charlotte, NC. They have four children, Chelsey, Colleen, Courtney, and Chance.
Favorite Color: Purple
Guest: Kermit Miller
Age: 73 years young
Location: Postville, Iowa
Bio: I grew up on an Iowa farm, served in the Vietnam war, Then came back to the farm where we produced milk, beef and pork. We were forced out of farming during the farm crisis and reinvented my self as a real estate broker and then an licensed insurance agent and financial planner. During the 80's recession we began to aquire rental property and later in the 2000's began developing property and building homes. I have also been involved in several direct marketing companies with moderate success. Today I am involved in bringing a new asphalt and concrete sealer to market and distributing it nation wide. I have a wonderful wife and 4 children with 12 amazing grandchildren which I love to entertain.
The world needs more: The world needs more patience, respect, and appreciation and love. In our fast internet on demand world we have become impatient and too demanding of perfection from our fellow man. We forget to enjoy the experience of life and the journey itself. We often get caught up in the demands of life and fail to take time for those we love.
Favorite Color: Sky blue
Guest: Jim "Bubba" Bay
Age: 53
Location: Pine Plains, New York
Wow Factor: Actually my WOW factor is that I am a common man that people can relate too. Being overweight most of my life, the sickness, and death of my 2 kid and my fall and near death experience has helped shape it.
What the world needs more of: The world needs more love, compassion, appreciation, belief.
Bio: Jim "Bubba" Bay has been a lifelong resident of upstate New York. Although one year was spent living in Arizona. For the past 32 years, I have been working as a landscaper with my brother John. I also have worked for many years at my family's gas station as well as a sports coach for my local high school. I have 5 children, Logan, Lauryn, Jon, and sons Robert and James Ulysses in Heaven. My favorite activity, besides spending time with my family, is metal-detecting. When metal detecting I truly enjoy the hunt for lost treasures. Finding something is icing on the cake!!!
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Scarlett Lewis
Age: 50
Location: Sandy Hook, CT
Wow Factor: We can choose love in every situation and circumstance. I learned this myself after my young son was murdered in his first-grade classroom. Responding with love and compassion not only helped me but it made the world a better place.
What the world needs more of: us to be empowered with the understanding that you can CHOOSE LOVE and the skills and tools to be able to do this.
Bio: Scarlett is the founder and executive director of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement following the murder of her 6-year-old son at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The goal of the movement is to make sure everyone has access to social and emotional learning and the understanding that we can choose love in every situation. Scarlett's background includes municipal bond trading, investment banking, and real estate.
Favorite Color: Turquoise
Guest: Randy Zales
Age: I am not young enough to know everything
Location: Tampa, Florida
Wow Factor: Making Coffee Disappear! Designing training & development solutions that drive performance, productivity, and profits.
What the world needs more of: Coffee! And, critical skills training to succeed now and into the future
Bio: Randy Zales leads sales and business growth program across four continents, with clients encompassing Fortune 500 Companies, government, franchises, small businesses and start-ups with extraordinary results. Randy recently helped a Gulf Coast Recovery firm to bring millions to Florida business owners impacted by the BP Oil Spill and is currently helping several companies to hire, train and deploy expanding sales forces, and develop emerging leader programs. Before being the President & Chief Learning Officer of The Training & Development Company, Zales built the highest revenue producing and longest running Anthony Robbins & Associates® franchises in history. Randy served as an Officer and Paratrooper in the US. Army. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and earned his Master’s Degree from Central Michigan University. He continues his executive development from prestigious business schools including Wharton, Kellogg, and the University of Michigan.
Favorite Color: Black
Guest: Kirk Schneider
Age: 62
Location: San Francisco, CA
Wow Factor: the sense of awe toward life, which I evolved through some difficult childhood experiences as well as profound adult experiences, all of which derived from the hard-won development of the capacity to be more fully present to myself and others.
What the world needs more of Cultivation of the sense of awe--the humility and wonder, thrill and anxiety, or sense of adventure toward living.
Bio: Kirk Schneider, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is past president (2015-2016) of the Society for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association, recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2005-2012), president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), Dr. Schneider has published over 100 articles and chapters and has authored or edited 12 books (several of which have been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, Russian, Turkish, and Portuguese). These books include The Paradoxical Self, Horror and the Holy, The Psychology of Existence (with Rollo May), The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology (2nd Ed.) (with Fraser Pierson and James Bugental), Rediscovery of Awe, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, Existential-Humanistic Therapy (with Orah Krug—accompanying APA video also available), Humanity’s Dark Side: Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy (with Art Bohart, Barbara Held, and Ed Mendelowitz), Awakening to Awe, The Polarized Mind, The Essentials of Existential-Humanistic Therapy Supervision (with Orah Krug), The Spirituality of Awe: Challenges to the Robotic Revolution and The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy (with Emmy van Deurzen et al.) is in preparation. Dr. Schneider is the recipient of the Rollo May Award from Division 32 of the APA for “Outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology,” the “Cultural Innovator” award from the Living Institute, Toronto, Canada, a psychotherapy training center which bases its diploma on Dr. Schneider’s Existential-Integrative model of therapy, and an Honorary diploma/membership from the Society for Existential Analysis of the U.K. and East European Association of Existential Therapy. Dr. Schneider is also a founding member of the Existential-Humanistic Institute in San Francisco, which in August 2012 launched one of the first certificate programs in Existential-Humanistic practice to be offered in the U.S.A. In April 2010, Dr. Schneider delivered the opening keynote address at the First International (East-West) Existential Psychology Conference in Nanjing, China, and has repeatedly been invited to speak at various similar venues in China—as well as Japan--over the last several years. He delivered a keynote address at the First World Congress of Existential Psychotherapy in London in May 2015.
Favorite Color: Aquamarine
Guest: Daniel Levin
Age: 63
Location: Encinitas, CA
Wow Factor: while most people strive to be extraordinary, the gift I have been given is to see the beauty in the ordinary. I often ask people on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being everything you want to be and 1 being something you never want to be, where do they place the word ordinary. most people reply a 1 or 2. asked the same question now using the word extraordinary, most people answer 10. and so I ask them this simple question, why do you want extra of something you don't want to be. when we see the beauty of the ordinary, we understand the rules of nature and we see in it the beauty of the sunrise, the change of seasons, etc.
What the world needs more of listening to each other more
Bio: Daniel Bruce Levin walked away from an opportunity to run H&R Block, a business that was a household name in order to hitchhike around the world to find happiness and inner peace. The people he met along his journey remind him a lot of the characters of The Mosaic. For most of his life, Levin felt different. He saw things others did not see and thought in ways that were unlike the ways of his peers. It made him feel alone and isolated, and though he knew how to play the game and interact with others well, he never felt he was the same as them. This all changed when he started to work with government and corporations seeking innovation. Suddenly, it was his ability to see differently that made him a sought out commodity. His work, as the Director of Business Development for Hay House, catapulted the once boutique publisher into international recognition. while he was in charge of Business Development, the company grew from $3million a year in sales to $100million dollars a year in revenue. Levin is the author of The Mosaic, a fable about finding connection and the founder and creator of The BeKind2U 21 Day Challenge. He is a rare blend of mystic and businessman who is married to the woman of his dreams, and still calls himself a modern-day monk. He is a connectivity activist who works with government organizations, corporations, and businesses to improve the flow of the working group and the interactions people have with themselves and others. Sharing a message of unification, he is a sought-after speaker for groups whose focus is on how to bring the pieces of a team together to function as one voice, i.e. The Mosaic.
Favorite Color: Black
Guest: Jessica Powers
Age: 40 years old
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Bio: Jessica Powers launched her coaching and consulting company in 2011, and has worked as an organizational development consultant, coach, and learning strategist since 2007. She has worked with many industries, including media, technology, entertainment, energy, international development, and financial services. Before entering the organizational development field, she worked in film and music production, and as a fundraiser and event producer for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Jessica believes that big thinking, joy, meaning, and intimate connection fuels business growth, and that careers can be wildly successful, fun, and healthy. She works with leaders to identify the people practices that will have the most impact on the organization’s culture, team effectiveness, and business growth. Jessica has a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Oberlin College. Some of her favorite things: meandering Brooklyn neighborhoods, talking to strangers, grocery shopping, dance breaks, and floating.
What The World Needs More of:
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Love
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Letting Go
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Unconstructed time
WOW factor: I have a warm, dynamic, and open conversations with just about anyone. I love talking to strangers and hearing stories about peoples’ lives, longing, love, struggles, and what matters to them. I am comfortable talking with anyone - from old friends to new friends to total strangers if it feels right. I think that people sense my curiosity and lack of judgement.
Favorite Color: Blue
Interesting facts that few people know: I grew up in a family that was curious about people - especially my grandma. She alway asks questions and waits for answers. Spending time with her always meant eating grapes, rubbing her feet, and looking through her papers, journals, photographs. She also had letters, which she found between her father (my great grandfather, Morris) and her grandfather (my great-great grandfather, David) between America and Lithuania. I saw the inner lives of people who I never met, but were so real. I want to always know and care about what matters to people - not the mundane routine minutiae of life - but what we yearn for, what we struggle against, what we overcome, what we cannot overcome, what gives us a sense of awe. My grandfather, who died over 20 years ago, was a ham radio operator, and he collected postcards from people all over the world who he connected with - including a kings or two. I always had the exciting feeling that we could connect to people anywhere in the world, and that people want to be known. One example of how that translated for me - I'd write papers in college and dial 411 to talk to people I was writing about, and had conversations with them. Everyone felt accessible and important. Reading Anne Frank’s diary when I was young had a big impression on me. As a third grader, I knew this person sharing her intimate thoughts was alive and dynamic, but also dead. I went to a high school on a farm in Vermont for one semester - The Mountain School. Every Friday in English class was awesome. We’d turn off the lights, and our English teacher would read snippets of everyone’s journals to the class, anonymously. It was fascinating and so intimate to know the inner lives of my classmates, and to not know their particular musings, but to know that they all had these interior lives and vulnerabilities that they don’t always display. Living in an apartment building on the upper east side with some very strange neighbors (cantaloupe thrown at my door, police coming into my apartment to get inside my neighbor’s apartment through my fire escape, neighbor with pet pigeon) where I didn’t want to be friendly with anyone, to living in a building now where I love my neighbors, have them over, they have me over, they’ve helped me get stitches, talked through relationship ups and downs. I love my neighbors, and this is how I want neighbors to be in this modern world. Getting laid of from a job, and suddenly walking around Manhattan at 11AM, 3PM, and wondering what all these people sitting in cafes and walking the streets were doing. Who were they? How did they get here? Did they not have jobs? How could they afford their mid morning lattes? What interesting things are they doing with their lives? So I set out to talk to strangers on purpose once a week for a while, and I talked to a ping pong champion, street cleaner, traveling the world couple, a sober dog walker, and a nightclub manager who lived in my great grandpa Morris’s old building on Henry Street in what is now Chinatown. We are all so fascinating, connected, different, and also - the same - in our desire for love, meaning, mastery, and pleasure. I also hosted a dinner party series with friends that was so fun and intimate and stimulating - getting to what impacted my guest’s lives. Every person played a character that was a source of inspiration for one dinner guest, so we all got to know each other in a creative way.
Guest: Chelsea Dinsmore
Age: 35
Location: London, United Kingdom
Wow Factor: I have been told that my ability to be open and vulnerable is admirable, but I also know my ability to see beyond what is happening directly in front of me (some say optimism but I think it is just perspective) is inspirational to many in the LYL community and to friends and family. I have always somewhat naturally been able to see the bright side of things but dealing with some tough life circumstances has allowed me to see that life doesn't always go the way you thought or planned, but when you stop fighting or resisting 'what is' there is beauty difference.
What the world needs more of: I believe the world needs more of many things: compassion, connectedness, perspective, etc. But I think it is important to start with where you are and what you can contribute daily... because the way you show up in the world affects (whether you know it or not) every person around you. That's why at Live Your Legend we focus on finding a deeper sense of purpose, meaning, and mindfulness (being less reactive and more intentional) in your own life. Because you cannot control what happens around you, but you can decide how you are going to respond to the things that do. I also believe the world needs to play more. We tend to take things so seriously and it strips the joy out of them, but with the right mindset, we can learn to find opportunities in our obstacles and appreciation even in the midst of pain. Emotions may occur naturally (pain, fear, etc.) but our behavior in response to those emotions is a choice.
Bio: Chelsea Dinsmore runs a personal development website called Live Your Legend that helps people discover how to live their lives with a deeper sense of purpose, meaning and mindfulness. Live Your Legend offers inspiration and education to a community of 127,000+ people through their online tools and courses and they have in-person communities that get together all around the world to provide a sense of like-minded support and accountability. When Chelsea is not helping others live their legend, you will find her teaching barre-based fitness classes, cooking up healthy meals or surfing waves around the world.
Favorite Color: My gut reaction was red but my more mindful reaction would probably be blue.
Guest: Ajit Nawalkha
Age: 34
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Wow Factor: Serve Love. Always My story really starts in a small town in India where I grew up with 23 other people in the house. I love my family but to say that my early years were challenging is an understatement.
What the world needs more of: People who found their way to live joyful, fulfilling, abundant life
Bio: Ajit Nawalkha is an entrepreneur, business coach, founder of Evercoach author of The Book of Coaching and a co-founder of Mindvalley - one of the biggest publishers in personal development space. Ajit Nawalkha, a serial entrepreneur, global educator & consultant, he is the co-founder of Mindvalley Teach, Evercoach and Global GRIT Institute, author of The Book of Coaching and Live Big. Born in Jaipur, Rajasthan living in a home with 23 other people, has always pursued the dream of Living Big. Over the past decade, he has helped build training and coaching companies to inspire the coming generation, transform entrepreneurs to live on purpose, while enjoying their lives while increasing profits. He enjoys exploring the world, learning different cuisines, writing, and spending time with his wife Neeta. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Julie Hamada
Age: 32
Location: Toronto Canada
Wow Factor: I don't believe in giving up! Nothing will stop me from becoming the best version of me!
What the world needs more of: Love.
Bio: Julie is an extremely passionate, committed and a creative professional. For over 8 years, she has offered expertise and strategy in creating systems for growing businesses and implementing a marketing strategy to increase profitability and brand awareness. Julie brings vision, project management, and expertise to all her business endeavors. She has assisted businesses in re-branding campaigns, marketing, product developments, and national/international advertising campaign that have increased overall sales for the business. Julie is 32 years young and a mother to a beautiful girl! She believes in using business strategy to also give back and make the world a better place through innovating not just as companies but as human beings. Julie currently has a marketing consulting company and holds a marketing executive position at a growing food chain! When she’s not working she loves to spend time with her daughter, hiking, giving back, and working on her book.
Favorite Color: Black
Guest: Nastasha McKeon
Age: 34
Location: San Diego, CA
Wow Factor: Perseverance. My early life set the stage really well for this characteristic! It’s really served me well in all areas of my life. A business coach of mine once explained it like this. “Nastasha you amaze me. Most are walking on their path & they run into a wall. It looks impossible to get over and so they pack it in and go home. You see a wall and you attempt to climb it, when that doesn’t work, you try to go around it, when that fails, you blow right through it.” I’ve had a lot of opportunities to call it quits in business especially and instead of calling it when the odds seem stacked against me, I just keep going. I keep pushing through and I get the beauty of seeing what’s on the other side of that wall.
What the world needs more of: Faith (in our own ability to create what we want through the power of the laws of attraction). Passion (for all that we do). Love & kindness. (Towards each other, the planet and ourselves).
Bio: Nastasha is a certified nutritionist and plant-based diet educator holding a certification in plant-based nutrition and holistic nutrition. She is the founder and CEO of Choice Superfood Bar & Juicery. Nastasha’s lifelong passion has been studying the connection of food and how it relates to health. She is a firm believer that—as Hippocrates said—food is medicine and it is her mission in life to teach people how that applies in their lives by educating them and giving them the tools needed to make healthier choices. In her clinical and personal experience, she has seen first hand the impact of diet on disease. She has witnessed the healing powers of food to lower cholesterol, high blood pressure, reverse type II diabetes and obesity, as well as relief from depression and many other diseases. Nastasha is a believer in the mind-body connection and encourages a balanced and healthy lifestyle to promote overall health and wellness. “Be mindful of what you put in your body, in your mind and with whom you surround yourself.” “Eat food with purpose on purpose, limit stress, meditate, exercise and most importantly always keep a positive mental attitude.” These are a few of her core values and principles for achieving ultimate wellbeing
Favorite Color: Ocean Blue
Guest: Randy Wallz
Age: 27
Location: Miami, FL
Wow Factor: 2012, car accident reshaped my life. Made me rethink everything I was doing. And now I just focus on living to the fullest, working and creating what makes me happy.
What the world needs more of: We need more people who love what they do. In turn, we will see more happiness.
Bio: Randy Paredes, also known as Randy Wallz was born in Venezuela. At 7 years old he moved to South Florida. Randy has professionally served as a Music Producer, DJ, Composer, Sound Engineer, Radio Announcer, Voice-Over, Characterizing, Dubbing, Presenter, Reporter, Television Producer, Graphic Designer, Visual Audio Editor, Broadcasting Teacher and Entrepreneur. At 14, Randy started his first company which has managed to bring to life more than 600 events, festivals, and clubs in South Florida. At 17 years old he was the host of his high school morning news and events, graduating with a major in TV production and winning the Award for Best Voice of 2009. He then went on to be a contest winner of Univision’s “Generation 23”. Which led him to work at MIAMI local station Univision 23 and years later in the show “Al Rojo Vivo” in Telemundo. Randy studied Radio / TV Broadcasting in Miami Dade College, Spanish Journalism at the University of Miami, and Sound Engineering at SAE Institute of technology. In 2013 he joined his father Edgar in teaching his broadcasting course his dad, a 40-year professional broadcaster. Today, Randy is a founding member of PangeaFM, PANGEA Academy, PANGEA Plus, PangeaDigitalTV Arrowstein DJ Management, And Vice Marketing Group. Soon to launch PANGEA Clothing brand PangeaON. In April of 2018 during the Latin Billboards Randy also launched his latest radio show and podcast “The Randy Wallz Show” where he interviews singers, songwriters, producers and members of the Latin music industry in order to learn and teach others through their experiences.
Favorite Color: Black and Blue
Guest: Katelyn G.
Age: 26
Location: Lakehead, CA
Wow Factor: when I realized (in my meditation classes), that only we can make ourselves feel a certain way. It is not what another does, or doesn’t do, our thoughts create our emotions. We can change them in an instant! I practice this wherever I go, at the grocery store, driving, at school, or at work. Every day there are moments where someone won’t be so kind, overly pushy, or shy. I look at those situations and talk to myself okay what is the underlying emotion that is making you feel a certain way back towards these people. Then I change my thought which will bring me to stability again. I also absorb the love when someone shoots me a smile or a kind gesture, it makes me flourish with added on happiness!
What The World Needs More Of: Vulnerability!
Bio: Long story short, I grew up living two completely different lifestyles with separated parents. Never feeling settled, or safe. I searched in all of the wrong avenues that one could take to find safety and love. One day I decided to change every aspect in my life; my thoughts, my feelings, my actions, & let go to of certain people. I began my journey of self-reflection/growth a couple years ago. I habitually meditate in every form, everywhere in my day to day life. I started this journey because I knew the only way to find happiness and love was to find it inwardly first. I wanted to free myself of past traumas and emotions I held onto which would play out in every situation. I could only evolve if I dug deep inside. I always had wonderful observations & advice I would give to others. I finally realized it should not just be offered I needed to utilize the tools I was sharing. Why follow someone’s guidance if they are not living it once I did that my world became whole. I love life and my mission is to bring any form of comfort to anyone who wishes to receive it.
Color: Purple
Guest: Douglas Winslow Cooper
Age: 75
Location: Walden, NY
Bio: Douglas Winslow Cooper, writer, and retired environmental physicist, now helps manage the at-home nursing care of his wife. Cooper earned his A.B., with honors, in physics at Cornell, then served at the U.S. Army biological warfare laboratories at Ft. Detrick, MD. He obtained his M.S. degree in physics at Penn State and his Ph.D. in engineering from Harvard. His professional life centered on environmental issues, and he was the author or co-author of more than 100 technical articles published in peer-reviewed journals. [Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VjhPPtIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao] In 1995, he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Sciences. In 2011, he wrote and published Ting and I: A Memoir of Love, Courage, and Devotion, available at amazon.com. He co-authored two other memoirs and edited three more. He recently wrote and published Write Your Book with Me and co-authored and published SOLVED! Curing Your Medical Insurance Problems. His coaching, writing, and editing site is http://WriteYourBookWithMe.com. His most recent book, Cooper and Beggin, How to Manage Nursing Care at Home, was published by Outskirts Press in March 2017.
What the world needs more of:
- Love
2. Commitment
- Our story is about the power of love, the importance of marriage, and the value of human life, even severely disabled life as my wife now endures. These three.
Wow Factor: We fell in love in Chinese class at Cornell in 1963, married 20 years later, still deeply in love, ready to face the challenges of an interracial marriage and multiple sclerosis, which eventually made Tina quadriplegic and on a ventilator, with 24/7 nursing at home for the past 14 years, after nearly dying in 2004.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Akhil Patel MD
Age: 32
Location: Sarasota, FL
What the world needs more of: People to execute on their dreams.
Wow Factor: Is my resourcefulness and perspective.
Bio: Akhil Patel was born in New Jersey and raised in Tampa, Florida. He earned his medical degree at the University of Florida at Shands Hospital. He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of South Florida. While there, he worked at Moffitt Cancer Center, James A. Haley VA Hospital, and Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Patel has earned many awards and held numerous leadership positions in local and national medical committees. He has practiced throughout Florida - West Palm Beach, The Villages, Leesburg, Ocala, and Tavares. He is currently in Sarasota, Florida where he manages medical clinics that focus on senior care. His aim is to disrupt low-income health care for seniors. In his free time, Dr. Patel enjoys sailing, golfing and playing tennis.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Micah & Diana LaCerte
Age: 39 and 41
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
What The World Needs More Of People who BELIEVE in their ability to succeed so that they will tackle and conquer their dreams and goals. This would have a major impact and ripple effect on the world.
Wow Factor: We have a deep passion to see other people transform their lives. It's why we founded our business Hitch Fit, and it's why we persist in every challenge that comes up. We are addicted to seeing people transform. The moments that have shaped this drive over the years are seeing person after person and hearing story after story of clients who have succeeded and then tackled so many other things in life that they didn't know were possible. Every time we hear one of those stories, it makes us want to just keep going and going and make the biggest impact that we can during our time on this earth.
Bios: Fitness power couple Micah and Diana LaCerte are co-owners of Hitch Fit Gym & Hitch Fit Online Personal Training. These entrepreneurs published authors, and World Champion fitness athletes have graced the covers of both fitness magazines and business magazines, and have pursued their mission passionately since 2009. Micah and Diana launched Hitch Fit in the heart of a recession, with a shoestring budget, and a BIG dream to have a positive impact on as many lives as possible. The online personal training business, which they built organically through social media, has spread to 74 countries. Hitch Fit Gym now has 3 locations in the Kansas City area. They along with their Transformation Training team in Kansas City, Missouri, have aided clients locally and globally shed over 350,000 pounds of fat. Hitch Fit will celebrate 10 years of transforming lives in February 2019 and have just launched a new division of the company, Hitch Fit Master Coaching, which will provide workshops and retreats. Micah is a class of 2012 graduate of the HEMP program (Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program). Diana is a Kansas City Business Journal - Women Who Mean Business class of 2015, and Hitch Fit is one of Thinking Bigger Business Media’s Top 25 under 25 Small Businesses in Kansas City. As leaders in the fitness and transformation industry, these two are committed to their mission of “Making the world a more fit and healthy place, one person at a time”. Micah and Diana have been married since 2011 and reside in Kansas City, Missouri. As born again believes in Jesus Christ they feel beyond blessed to fulfill God’s call on their lives by helping others transform.
Favorite Color: Micah-Silver Diana-Green
Guest: Brandon James Duncan
Age: 38
Location: Portland Oregon
Bio: Serial entrepreneur, father, author, athlete...focused on becoming a better man each day while making a positive impact along the way.
What The World Needs More Of:
- Self-love
- unconditional love
- connection
- community
- compassion
Wow Factor: My ability to connect and relate to others in a deep and intimate way, thus creating a leadership path to mutual growth and expansion. Experiencing the death of my brother on my birthday shaped me in a way and inspired me to pursue meaningful relationships and connection with others.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Frances Pappalardo
Age: 31
Location: New York
Bio: Frances’ journey has taken her all over the world, sharing her personal experiences and philosophies with hundreds of thousands of people who truly desire to customize their lives. She is the current VP of the Justice Project Honduras and on the founding team of Operation Holiday Impact. Her joy comes from helping others break through the barriers that are keeping them from living a fully customized life. She is most proud of being a full-time mom and wife to her husband and two kids.
The world needs more of: Servent Leadership - The belief and encouragement they need to know they can truly customize the life they’ve always desired to live and the necessary steps it takes to get there.
Favorite Color: Green
Guest: Ben Freeman Age: 41 Location: New York City Bio: Ben has extensive experience in both the physical and financial commodities markets; he has invested capital across multiple market cycles and transacted commodity products globally. Ben currently runs his own consulting business, Ben Freeman LLC. Ben also founded the commodity merchant business HudsonField to opportunistically acquire and trade physical energy assets. Prior to HudsonField, Ben was the global head of crude oil trading for Goldman Sachs, where he successfully managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of commodity derivatives and structured transactions, while leading a global trading team across the US, Europe and Asia. At Goldman, Ben successfully helped the firm navigate the commodities franchise business across significant structural changes in the industry, such as the development of e-trading and post-financial crisis banking regulations. Ben started his career as an analyst for Enron Corp in Houston, Texas. The world needs more: 1. Truth 2. Accountability for those in public positions Favorite color: Blue
Guest: Naresh Vissa Age: 29 Location: Tampa, Fl Bio: Naresh Vissa is the #1 bestselling author of FIFTY SHADES OF MARKETING: Whip Your Business into Shape & Dominate Your Competition, PODCASTNOMICS: The Book of Podcasting... To Make You Millions, THE NEW PR: 21st Century Public Relations Strategies & Resources... To Reach Millions, and TRUMPBOOK: How Digital Liberals Silenced a Nation into Making America Hate Again. He is also the Founder & CEO of Krish Media & Marketing – a full service online and digital media and marketing consultancy and agency. He has worked with CNN Radio, J.P. Morgan Chase, EverBank, The Institute for Energy Research, Houston Rockets, Houston Astros, the American Junior Golf Association, Agora Financial, Agora Publishing, Stansberry Research and TradeStops. Vissa graduated Magna Cum Laude from Syracuse University's Honors Program with degrees in broadcast journalism, finance and accounting. He earned a Master's Degree from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He has been featured on USA Today, Yahoo!, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Businessweek, MSN Money, Business Insider, India Today, Hindustan Times and other domestic and international media outlets. The world needs more: 1. The world needs more people to be introspective. 2. To focus on improving themselves and their own situations. Wow Factor: Failure has wowed me at every crossroad: - Being fired (still happens) - Shutting down or walking away from ventures - Losing money At the same time, I'm fortunate enough to have people around me who inspire me to work harder and strive for more. Favorite color: Red, Orange, Dark Blue
Guest: Josh Macin Age: 29 Location: Berkeley CA Bio: Josh Macin was the 2010 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion and the 2012 Pan-American champion. Suddenly, in October of 2013, he began to experience debilitating panic attacks, suicidal despair, and gut-wrenching anxiety. After pharmaceutical drugs provided no relief, he found himself on a hero’s journey – traveling to the corners of the earth experimenting with some of the world’s most powerful hallucinogens. When neither ayahuasca, float tanks, fasting, meditation, colon cleaning, nor yoga could provide him with relief he began to lose faith. In a surreal sequence of events that transpired three years after beginning the journey, he found out about heavy metal poisoning and started a comprehensive detoxification protocol. Now, alive and well to tell the tale, Josh has created TheDetoxDudes.com – a company devoted to helping people overcome toxicity. The world needs more: 1. Authenticity 2. Vulnerability 3. Truth Wow Factor: Compassion, authenticity, realness. My illness helped me become more real and shed the layers. Favorite color: Blue
Guest: Mike Robbins Age: 44 Location: Novato, CA Bio: Mike Robbins is the author of four books, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself Everyone Else is Already Taken, Nothing Changes Until You Do, and Bring Your Whole Self to Work. He delivers keynotes and seminars that empower people, leaders, and organizations to be more successful, appreciative, and authentic. Prior to his current work, Mike played baseball at Stanford and then professionally with the KC Royals. After his athletic career was cut short by injuries, he worked in the tech world, before starting his consulting business in 2001. His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Gap, Microsoft, and others. www.Mike-Robbins.com The world needs more: 1. Love 2. Empathy 3. Understanding Wow Factor: I think my parents splitting up when I was 3, my pro baseball career ending, losing both of my parents and my sister, being married to my amazing wife Michelle and father to our incredible daughters all have shaped the way I think about life, relate to others, and do my work. Favorite color: Green
Guest: Caleigh Haber-Takayama Age: 28 Location: Los Angeles Bio: Born and raised along the California coast, Caleigh was diagnosed at birth with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes thick and sticky mucus to clog the airways in the lungs and affect many other organs in the body. Growing up, Caleigh stayed healthy through sports and social activities. She later moved to San Francisco to attend culinary school. Despite her best efforts to balance health and happiness, she found herself with end-stage lung disease, frequently hospitalized and requiring a double lung transplant to live longer. While waiting for a transplant and after receiving new lungs in October 2015, she dedicated her life to awareness and advocacy for cf, organ transplant, genetic disease and chronic illness. She went on to meet the love of her life, travel and get married. After only a year and a half post-transplant, her body went into organ rejection and again she was found fighting for her life. She was hospitalized often and in January she became so sick she was medically evacuated to Los Angeles where she lived in the hospital until receiving her second gift of life - another double lung transplant June 8, 2018. She now lives a successful life achieving new goals every day -- including chronicling her journey and beginning her own legacy through her foundation Fight2Breathe. The world needs more: 1. I believe the world needs more of the "Hype Man". 2. People empowering other people. Wow Factor: My WOW factor is my ability to remain optimistic. My family and friends have helped me keep hopeful through their love and support. Through their ability to make me laugh and smile. Through their reminders of past triumphs and future goals. Favorite color: Purple
Website: https://www.fight2breathe.org
Instagram: @Fight2Breathe
Guest: Dean Jacobs
Age: 56
Location: Nebraska
Bio: Quit a successful job and sold the house to follow a dream. Everyone thought he was crazy. After exploring 58 countries, an ordinary guy from Nebraska has gained a perspective and wisdom that is helpful to others. His passion is to remind students, dreams are not for special people, they are for everyone. We are not here to go through the motions of life, but to live a life of wonder.
The World Needs More:
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Connection to the things that matter.
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More attention to the things that bring us joy.
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More action on the things that make the world better.
Wow Factor: The world is far more kind, beautiful and generous then what it is given credit for. My journeys are filled with experiences that prove this to be true. From watching the sun go down and change colors on the face of Mount Everest, to being within an arms reach of a 450 lb mountain gorilla, to having my bus fare paid by locals in Sudan. Life is filled with moments of wonder.
Favorite Color: Blue, for big open skies and horizons to go explore.
Guest: Tony Pappalardo
Age: 39 years old
Location: New York, NY
Bio: Tony figured out a way in his 20's to minimize his time as a business owner, so that he could maximize his position as full-time husband and father in his 30's. Having been asked to speak on stages across the globe, his passion lies in helping others do the same - breakthrough any limitations that keep them from living a truly fulfilled and authentic life focusing in on the areas that matter most.
The World Needs More:
1. People focusing on what is RIGHT with life
Wow factor: Tune in and find out.
Favorite color: Blue
Guest: Davis Zavik
Age: 28 years old
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Bio: New mom, wife, author of Assisted Living, Everything you Need to Know to Compassionately Care for your Elderly Parent, Residential Assisted Living Facility owner, Sociology graduate from the University of Miami
The world needs more:
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Compassion
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Empathy
Wow Factor: My ability to think ahead, act in a timely manor and organize my schedule. Growing up with a younger brother, I had to think at least one step ahead if I wanted to have a say in what we were doing, where we were going etc. So I think I learned from a young age that if I didn’t think ahead, I wouldn’t get to sit next to the person I wanted to at family dinners, or play with the toy of my choice instead of my brother getting to take it first. When I was younger I also sailed a tall ship around the world and I think that greatly impacted my character today. Onboard we had to be on time and if we were more than 90 seconds late we were reprimanded- the reason being that they would have to assume a man overboard drill for safety purposes. So I learned very quickly the value of being on time when that was a daily focus 24/7 for an entire year of my life. And as a new mom, I think everyone can understand the importance of schedules. Be it sleep, pumping or feeding schedules- you have to pay attention to your time. I think there’s a lot I still have to learn, but I’m really good at time, organization and thinking ahead.
Favorite color: Scarlet red although you wouldn’t know that from looking at my closet of mostly black clothes
Guest: Bryan Takayama
Age: 26 years old
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Bio: Husband to an amazing wife with a focus on taking advantage of every second to find happiness.
The World Needs More:
- Living in the moment
Wow Factor: Work ethic, loyalty, figuring out how things work and executing
Favorite Color: Orange
Website: https://www.fight2breathe.org
Instagram: @Mr_fight2breathe
Guest: Juliana Lacerda Sobral
Age: 34 years old
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Bio: Juliana has spent her professional life supporting students in higher education and as an integral collaborator on the growth of a plant-based lifestyle brand. She’s currently taking time to focus on her family’s health and wellness, to be fully devoted to her baby boy, traveling and working with her husband Murs, and dabbling in consulting projects she’s passionate about.
The World Needs More:
- Tenderness
2. Community, neighborhoods with neighbors who need to interact on a regular basis to increase kindness, compassion, integrity and decrease loneliness and apathy.
WOW factor: Connecting deeply with strangers! I think moving a lot, traveling, being a person who dislikes smalltalk, and certainly going through my own personal challenges have pushed me to develop this ability.
Favorite Color: GOLD!
Guest: Boone Zavik
Age: 31 years old
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Bio: Vice President and Marketing Manager of Immuno Laboratories.
The World Needs More:
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Seeing Through Others Eyes
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Empathy
WOW Factor: I'm in the martial arts hall of fame for the Comjuka-Kali system and at the time I was the youngest :) (It is knife and stick fighting.)
Favorite Color: Purple even thought I wear black and usually buy black colored things.
Guest: Gregg Stebben
Age: Wise, Refined & Heartfelt
Location: Charleston, SC
Bio: Former host, “Men’s Health Live” for Men’s Health Magazine Interview subjects range from Presidents Trump and Clinton, to executives from Google and Twitter, to GM and Maserati Author of 19 books, including White House: Confidential and Internet Privacy for Dummies
The world needs more of:
- Internal Debates
Favorite Color: Unknown
Guest: Niyi Sobo
Age: 33 years old
Location: Portland, OR
Bio: Former nfl running back, former firefighter, current peak mindset consultant , podcaster and entrepreneur. Father of 5, husband.
The world needs more:
1. More thugs- more fearless leaders willing to disrupt the status quo to establish new realities for people and improve the world
- People guiding people to reality
WOW factor: My wow factor is my self reliance- I love being alone, I deal well with pain and I am independent. Being the 3rd of 4 boys helped, and not getting the love I needed from mom and pops. Having my son at a young age taught me to be responsible and self reliant at a young age. Quitting my job as a firefighter and building my business with very little help reinforced my independence.
Favorite Color: RED
Guest: Farhad Kardani (Coach Kardan)
Age: 50 years old
Location: Dubai, UAE
Bio: Born to love & to be loved. An awesome citizen of the world. A mixture of Iran, New Zealand & Japan. A visionary leader who wants to make a big difference while on this journey called life. A founder and CEO of two training companies in Japan & UAE. A best selling author of two books, Professional speaker and an executive coach to some of the fortune 500 companies. Married to a beautiful Japanese and is the father of an amazing girl. Currently based in the amazing city of Dubai.
The world needs more...
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Pure Love
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High Quality Communication
Wow factor: I allowed LIFE to touch me but never to CRUSH me. I love people and always fascinated to see how we treat each other.
Favorite color: Blue
Guest: Marino Duran
Age: 27 years old
Location: Ann Arbor, Mi
Bio: Marino Durán was born in a poor town in the Dominican Republic. When he was 5-years old, he immigrated to the United States -- not knowing a word of English. Yet, currently Marino works as an engineer for General Motors, one of the world’s largest corporations. It’s a top job and Marino, who graduated in May (2016) with a computer engineering degree, can hardly believe his good fortune: He is blessed now with the promise of professional success. But coming from such a poor background, his path to academic and professional success was strewn at every step with obstacles that threatened to overwhelm him. Yet he overcame all those obstacles by doing what came naturally to him: working hard and never accepting defeat. Article here: https://news.njit.edu/njit-grad-has-top-job-general-motors/
The world needs more:
- People living their passion & inspiring others to do the same
Wow factor: My perspective on life and my ability to see things as they should be rather than as they are. What most see as an inconvenience I see as a privileged and I've come ahead time and time again because I am willing to do what others aren't.
Favorite color: Blue
Guest: Aarron Tyson
Age: 30 years old
Location: Atlanta, GA
Bio: Aarron Tyson was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He began picking up various instruments at age 6 to later become a professional Musician/Producer touring and sharing the stage with some of the world's most popular household names. Aarron's original music has been featured on networks such as MTV, TNT, and WE TV as well as live performance TV appearances with artists like, Musiq Soulchild, Kid Rock & Yelawolf to name a few... As the world of music adjusted to his actions, the multi-instrumentalist's aspirations continued as he began to help launch the careers of several indie artists finding their way developing a career in artist development and branding. Aarron currently resides in Atlanta, Ga where he continues his musical journey while tackling other business ventures as a full-time entrepreneur.
The World Needs More:
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Selflessness
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Transparency
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Humility
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Love
WOW Factor: My ability to listen and to place myself in the shoes of the next person. This is where I learn the most about people and also myself. Exercising this daily has pushed me daily to remain open-minded to the needs of others in this massive world that we live in.
Favorit Color: Blue
Guest: Lauren Eliz Love
Age: 29 years old
Location: Connecticut, CT
Bio: Lauren Eliz Love is the founder of @badassbusinessbabe an online brand that offers business coaching for women ready to scale their passion online. Working in the coaching industry for more than five years, Lauren has helped thousands of women shift into financial freedom by becoming personal influencers online.
The world needs more:
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Acceptance
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Understanding
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Compassion
WOW factor: My wow factor is my vulnerability. My ability to wear my heart on my sleeve and be me without caring what other people think. I feel like there needs to be more of that in the world.
Favorite Color: Tiffant blue
Guest: David Safai
Age: 42 years old
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Bio: A Husband, Father of 2, Entrepreneur, Real Estate Developer and loves Martial Arts, going to Maui and reading new books.
The World Needs More:
- Entrepreneurs
Wow Factor: Tune in and find out
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Amanda Marit
Age: 31 years old
Location: Encinitas, CA
Bio: Amanda is a Soul + Business Coach, guide, and intuitive who has empowered and mentored countless women and female entrepreneurs around the world who are here to serve the world massively, know their worth, + receive abundantly. Through her private 1:1 programs, intensive retreats, and group trainings, she is able to help her clients break free of the limits in the mind and connect to INFINITE possibilities through connection to Divine/Universe/Source. Her superpower is tapping into the unshakable confidence, love, and abundance that is already available within the heart. She believes anything and everything is possible through a blend of energetic alignment + getting fired up to take inspired action!
The world needs more:
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Heart
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Passionate people
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People pursuing their dreams & believing in themselves
WOW factor: My wow factor is being able to passionately express my message in a way that helps inspire others to step into their highest potential. Spending 7 years in Corporate America, I know what it’s like to feel like you’re not living life to the fullest. That moment when I started feeling there was something more out there for me was the moment I truly felt alive -- possibly even for the first time. The idea of a greater experience sparked an entire life transformation. From Corporate Leadership to helping others tap into their souls power and purpose, my life has done a complete 180 over the last 5 years. The most humbling moments can help shape us into who we are meant to be, as we find out how powerful we TRULY are. The moment in my business when I had 5 whole cents left in my bank account, then went out to have a $20,000 month in my business (which sparked many more of those months following that) was one of the most empowering experiences of my life. I could have quit, but the magic was right on the other side. I am SO passionate about teaching this to others who are struggling to grow their missions.
Favorite color: Purple
Guest: Steve Fink
Age: 22 years old
Location: Washington, DC
Bio: Steve Fink is a 22 year old entrepreneur. Early in life, my family and I were homeless living from one hotel to another. Now, Steve is working towards a future where he can impact the lives of others while living life to the fullest.
What the world needs more of:
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Faith in themselves
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Love
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Understanding
What is your WOW factor: Being homeless. Going through that really shaped the way I look at my future. Going to Cali was the best experience of my life. It literally taught me that the journey is what really matters. It grew my love for travel but taught me to be patient and think things through.
Favorite Color: Blue
Guest: Jocelyn Kuhn
Age: 32 years old
Location: Portland, OR
Bio: Jocelyn Kuhn is a professional coach, speaker and author with a wealth of experience helping people thrive through life’s most challenging moments. Having been through some pretty significant transitions herself (death, divorce, career transitions, blending a family, etc.), she feels passionate about helping others through what can be a very scary time. As a coach she helps clients to clearly define new and exciting goals and dreams, reframe their story so that it empowers them, and create actionable steps towards achieving goals and overcoming obstacles. She’s studied effective transitions at length and is excited to share her 5 Step process to thrive through any transitions a person may be facing.
What does the world need more of:
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Love
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Forgiveness
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Saying I'm Sorry
What is your WOW factor: My WOW factor is empathy and compassion. I LOVE people and truly care about helping people live more abundant, happier, richer lives. I think the biggest events that have shaped this in me would be the death of my father, going through a tough divorce in my early twenties that I didn't see as part of my plan, and just being with people and hearing their stories.
Favorite color: Pink
Guest: Jason Sisneros (aka The Bald Avenger)
Age: 46 years old
Location: Denver, Colorado
Bio: Entreprenuer + Philanthropist + Business Consultant + Comedian
What does the world need more of:
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Transparency
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Forgiveness
What is your WOW factor: Discipline + Focus
Favorite Color: Purple
Guest: Corey Corpodian
Age: 32 years old
Location: Newport Beach, CA
What do you believe the world needs more of:
- LEADERSHIP
What is your WOW factor: Tune in find out!
Favorite Color: Blue
More about Corey Corpodian:
Corey Corpodian is the founder and host of Unleash Success. Corey is a dynamic, high impact up and coming motivational speaker who has given keynotes for personal development seminars, businesses, and even the US Marines. His mission in life is to breakdown the secrets of success into step-by-step actions that you can then use to empower your own life. Corey is passionate about helping you identify what is limiting you from your potential, the knowledge to understand how to make a change, and the tools to set you on the path to success! Learn the mindset, the tools, and the strategies of the best in the world so that you too can Unleash Success. Website: http://www.unleashsuccess.com
Guest: Alison
Age: Unsure
Location: San Francisco Bay, CA
What do you believe the world needs more of:
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Empathy for animals
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Empathy for each other
What is your favorite color: Unknown
... Note to self -- When you invite a guest on the podcast who just happened to be sitting in the same row as you on a flight from SFO to MIA -- MAKE SURE TO GET THEIR CONTACT INFO!!
Guest: Monica Lucero
Website: https://www.monicalucerowellness.com Location: San Francisco, CA Bio: Monica is a holistic health coach in San Francisco, CA. Integrating fitness, mindfulness and clean eating self-care practices, she helps her clients achieve the mental and physical clarity required to live their passions. She herself has overcome a back injury, thyroid autoimmune disorder, and depression through healthy and mindful living. She is a certified Neuro-Linguistic coach and comes from a therapeutic healing background. World needs more of: 1. Healing 2. Self Care Wow factor: Tune in and find out Favorite Color: Fuchsia
Guest: Amanda Robbins
Age: 34 Years Old
Location: Miami Beach, FL, USA
What do you believe the world needs more of:
- Financial Literacy
- Greater Access to Healthy Foods
What is your WOW factor: Tune in to find out
What is your favorite color: Purple